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Papuan

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Papua or its people or language.  "Papuan vowels"



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"Papuan" Quotes from Famous Books



... occurred to Tom that the Papuan expected to find a canoe by which they might escape down the river and get out to sea. He accordingly without hesitation followed Nick's advice; and the party set out, following the two Papuans as fast ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... will destruction fall upon the Scherian island." Perhaps, from this and other expressions to be offered in a later chapter, the learned will be able to determine whether the speech is of the Polynesian or the Papuan family, or whether, as I sometimes suspect, it is of neither, but of a character quite isolated ...
— In the Wrong Paradise • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Papuan" :   Papua, tongue, Papuan monetary unit, Papuan language, natural language, Indonesian, New Guinea


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