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PAPUAN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; Papuan language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Papuan language" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)