💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Melanesian languages"
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| Word | Definition |
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| australo-melanesiannoun | (archaic, anthropology) A member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia. |
| austronesian peoples | The Austronesian peoples refer to people sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, and are meant to refer to a large group of peoples from places such as Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak languages that have been categorized by some as Austronesian languages. |
| austric languages | a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as Kra–Dai and Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. |
| proto-malayo-polynesian language | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. |
| malayic languages | a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. |
| polynesian outlier | Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian societies that geographically lie outside the main region of Polynesian influence, known as the Polynesian Triangle; instead, Polynesian outliers are scattered in the two other Pacific subregions, Melanesia and Micronesia. |
| continental celtic languages | the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany. |
| proto-oceanic language | Proto-Oceanic (abbreviated as POc) is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. |
| melanesian mythology | Melanesian mythology refers to the folklore, myths, and religions of Melanesia, a region in Southwest Oceania that encompasses the archipelagos of New Guinea (including Indonesian New Guinea and Papua New Guinea), the Torres Strait Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji. |
| melanesians | the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. |
| austronesian languages | a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). |
| polynesians | an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. |
| moluccans | the Austronesian-speaking and Ambonese Malay Speak ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. |
| indigenous peoples of oceania | Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, and Austronesians (Melanesians,Including Torres Strait Islanders Micronesians, and Polynesians). |
| pre-indo-european languages | The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages. |
| central pacific languages | The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. |
| polynesian narrative | — |
| hawaiian language | Hawaiian is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. |
| mongoloidnoun | (slang, derogatory, offensive) An idiot, a retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome. |
| marquesan language | Marquesan is a collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. |
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