melanesian|melanesians in English

noun

resident of Melanesia (group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia)

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

2. These Melanesian people developed stone tools and agriculture.

3. 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.

4. Defaulter and Abscondee: a Melanesian miscellany

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

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

7. Australoid (Adjective) A member of the racial classification that includes Veddahs, Negritos, New Guineans, Melanesians, Micronesians and Australian aborigines

8. Australoid (plural Australoids) (anthropology) A member of the racial classification that includes Veddahs, Negritos, New Guineans, Melanesians, Micronesians and Australian aborigines.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. Modern Austronesian (AN)-speaking Melanesians are considered to be derived from the admixture of indigenous non-Austronesian (NAN)-speaking people and AN-speaking people from Southeast Asia

14. 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.

15. 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

16. • 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.

17. 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).

18. : 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

19. Indonesians and Filipinos are properly termed Asian, since their island groups are considered part of the Asian continent, but not the Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians of the central and southern Pacific, who are now often referred to collectively as Pacific Islanders

20. 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

21. 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.

22. Australo-Melanesians (also known as Australasians or Australomelanesoid race or Australoid race) is an outdated historical grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia. Groups that were controversially included are found in parts of Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

23. 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

24. 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.