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Melanesia

noun
1.
The islands in the southwestern part of Oceania.





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... languages treated in this article, in every part of speech subject to inflexion, there are double forms of the first person, of the dual and plural, similar in character to what have been reported from many islands in Polynesia and Melanesia, and the tribes of North America. Separate forms for "we two," and "he and I," were observed by Rev. James Guenther among the pronouns of the Wiradyuri natives at Wellington,[5] but as he does not ...
— The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews


Words linked to "Melanesia" :   Bismarck Archipelago, Oceanica, archipelago, New Caledonia, Solomons, Oceania, Austronesia, New Hebrides, Fiji Islands, Republic of Vanuatu, cargo cult, Vanuatu, Fijis, Solomon Islands


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