- Papuan language
- nounany of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages• Syn: ↑Papuan• Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue
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Papuan language
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