melanesian in English

adjective

1

of or relating to Melanesia, its peoples, or their languages.

This is reflected in the language of scholarship: Melanesian myth and Caledonian history.

noun

1

a native or inhabitant of any of the islands of Melanesia.

At the same time, other Pacific Island peoples - Melanesians and Aboriginals - independently developed their own music and dance forms.

2

any of the languages of Melanesia, mostly Austronesian languages related to Malay but also including Neo-Melanesian (or Tok Pisin), an English-based pidgin.

On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed.

Use "melanesian" in a sentence

1. These Melanesian people developed stone tools and agriculture.

2. Defaulter and Abscondee: a Melanesian miscellany

3. In June 1948, Arunta visited several Melanesian islands.

4. Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu

5. The Ambonese are mainly Melanesian; they also live in the Uliasers and on the nearby Ceram coast

6. However, the appropriate voices for each character could be heard simultaneously in Hiri Motu and Melanesian-Pidgin.

7. They are believed to have result from a fusion of Austronesian and Melanesian ancestries, and survive from fishing and hunting.

8. The Australoids include the Australian Aborigines, highland New Guineans, and some Melanesians (who inhabit the Melanesian islands close to Australia)

9. As of 2009, the Melanesian Kanak people constituted 40.3% (99,078) of the population of 245,580 in New Caledonia, a minority in their ancestral land.

10. According to oral traditions, the first Melanesian settlers landed at Vuda Point and established Viseisei, believed to be Fiji's oldest settlement, although archaeologists refute this claim.

11. Bislama is a pidgin language used in Vanuatu and is now a creole in urban areas. It essentially combines a typically Melanesian grammar with a mostly English vocabulary

12. • Beach-la-mar: the jargon or trade speech of the western Pacific, by William Churchill (1911) The Bislama is a Melanesian pidgin used as contact language in Vanuatu, former New Hebrides.

13. Accommodation possibilities vary from the charming Melanesian Hut (4 beds), a small bungalow (2 single beds), or 2 bed and breakfast rooms at Manu’s house (1 double, 1 triple share).

14. : of or relating to a group of people formerly considered to constitute a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) of humans having Aboriginal Australian and Melanesian ancestry Other Words from Australoid

15. Bislama developed as a means of communication between the "Blackbirders" who took Melanesian men to Queensland to work the sugar cane fields in the 19th century and the men they transported

16. Australoids include Australian Aborigines, highland New Guineans, and some Melanesians (who inhabit the Melanesian islands close to Australia). The term derives from the Australian Aborigines and has sometimes been used as a synonym for Australian Aborigines.

17. Other articles where Bislama language is discussed: Vanuatu: People: …languages and dialects are spoken; Bislama, an English-based Melanesian pidgin, is the national language and, along with English and French, is one of three official languages.

18. オーストラロイド（英: Australoid ）、またはオーストラロ・メラネシアン（英: Australo-Melanesian ）は、人種概念の一つで、コーカソイド、ネグロイド、モンゴロイドと並び四大人種と呼ばれる。 オーストラリア大陸、ニューギニア、メラネシアを中心としたオセアニア州及びスンダ列島

19. A variety of Melanesian pidgin and the national language of VANUATU, sharing official status with English and French, which are the principal languages of education.Bislama, descended from BEACH LA MAR, is a LINGUA FRANCA for a population speaking some 100 distinct local languages, and is more or less evenly distributed throughout the country.