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Definition of Papuan language
1. Noun. Any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Papuan Language
Literary usage of Papuan language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papua; Or, British New Guinea by John Hubert Plunkett Murray (1912)
"... Rossel—Language of Rossel a Papuan language—Language of the women—Island of
Loa—Manufacture of native money—Rossel Island canoes—Cannibalism—Totems—Sud ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. (1875)
"... communication had been carried on between the natives and the missionaries;
and how far any acquaintance had been obtained with the Papuan language ? ..."
3. Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Saʻa and Ulawa, Solomon Islands by Walter George Ivens (1918)
"... to be a Papuan language which has adopted an abnormal number of Melanesian words.
"It has also adopted some Melanesian particles, the verbal auxiliaries ..."
4. The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: A Record of Voyages by William T. Wawn (1893)
"The barrier to understanding was more than just a result of the failure of
Europeans to completely master a Papuan language, although some were well aware ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In tlic junge of Ebon, ono of the islands in the Marshall archipelago, nouns have
the peculiarity which ¡e characteristic of the Papuan language«: those ..."
6. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"While the Koita belong to the Papuan stock and speak a Papuan language, most of
the men understand the Motu tongue, which is one of the Melanesian family. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... and ways that complete data on this subject will go far to solve the problem
of the origin of the Malayo-Polynesian and Papuan language. ..."
8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"Mr. GOULD asked in what way communication had 1 between the natives and the
missionaries ; aud ho\v far any a. i been obtained with the Papuan language ? ..."
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