- Dobu or
Dobuan is an
Austronesian language spoken in
Milne Bay
Province of
Papua New Guinea. It is a
lingua franca for 100,000
people in D'Entrecasteaux...
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subset of
those letters. Such
languages include: Bemba,
Chewa (Nyanja),
Dobuan, Greenlandic, Huli, Indonesian, Luvale, Malagasy, Malaysian, Ndebele, Shona...
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subject of a
seminal anthropological study by Reo Fortune. He
described the
Dobuan character as "paranoid",
obsessed with
black magic, and as
having extremely...
- Mangap-Mbula's ina, but have an
additional sound at the beginning. They are
Dobuan (where n-ina
means 'that') and
Nakanamanga (where wa-ina
means 'that (distant)')...
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prestige and
lightening their work.[citation needed] She
contrasts the
Dobuans,
whose lives were
dominated by
jealous guardianship of
everything from...
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portraying them not only as
aggressive and nasty.
Fortune wrote: "The
Dobuans prefer to be
infernally nasty or else not
nasty at all",
Benedict describes...
