Definition of Papuans. Meaning of Papuans. Synonyms of Papuans

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Definition of Papuans

Papuan
Papuan Pap"u*an, a. Of or pertaining to Papua.
Papuan
Papuars Pap"u*ars, n. pl.; sing. Papuan. (Ethnol.) The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.

Meaning of Papuans from wikipedia

- indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for two major...
- hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans, whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea...
- Look up papua or Papua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Papua may refer to: New Guinea, the world's second-largest island in the southwestern Pacific...
- Netherlands' efforts to promote a West Papuan national identity among right-leaning Papuans and suppressed left-leaning Papuans pro-Indonesian sympathies. These...
- predominantly po****ted by ethnic Papuans while coastal towns are inhabited by descendants of intermarriages between Papuans, Melanesians, and Austronesians...
- sentiment" and that "possibly 85 to 90 percent [of Papuans], are in sympathy with the Free Papua cause or at least intensely dislike Indonesians". Indonesian...
- specifically known as Papua Papuan languages, a geographic group comprising a large number of the languages of New Guinea Papuans, the indigenous peoples...
- natural area. Papuan governor Lukas Enembe criticized the road construction, saying that the road "mostly has not been used" by native Papuans. Armed wing...
- predominantly po****ted by ethnic Papuans while coastal towns are inhabited by descendants of intermarriages between Papuans, Melanesians and Austronesians...
- Look up West Papua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. West Papua may refer to: Western New Guinea, the western half of the island of New Guinea administered...