Papuan is an adjective referring to:
* anything related to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
, a large island north of Australia
* anything related to one or another of the countries or territories on this island that are specifically known as
''Papua''
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Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply ...
, a geographic group comprising a large number of the languages of New Guinea
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Papuans, the indigenous peoples of New Guinea
See also
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Papua (disambiguation)
Papua may refer to:
* New Guinea, the world's second-largest island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
* Western New Guinea, an Indonesian region comprising the western half of the island of New Guinea
** Papua (province), an Indonesian province in ...
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