Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun papuan

2 senses of papuan

Sense 1
Papuan -- (a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)
       => Indonesian -- (a native or inhabitant of Indonesia)

Sense 2
Papuan, Papuan language -- (any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages)
       => natural language, tongue -- (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Similarity of adj papuan

1 sense of papuan

Sense 1
Papuan -- (of or relating to Papua or its people or language; "Papuan native crafts"; "Papuan vowels")