papuan has definitions from the field of linguistics
1
[ adjective ] of or relating to Papua or its people or language

Examples

"Papuan native crafts" "Papuan vowels"

Related terms

Papua

2
[ noun ] (linguistics) any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages

Synonyms

Papuan_language

Related terms

natural_language

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