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territory extended into
southeast Asia,
where ancestors of the
Melanesians developed.
Melanesians of some
islands are one of the few non-European peoples, and...
- Look up
Melanesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Melanesian is the
adjectival form of Melanesia. It may
refer to:
Melanesians Melanesian mythology...
- d'Urville
characterized Melanesians as a
distinct racial group. : 165 Over time, however,
Europeans increasingly viewed Melanesians as a
distinct cultural...
- Australo-
Melanesians (also
known as
Australasians or the Australomelanesoid,
Australoid or
Australioid race) is an
outdated historical grouping of various...
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diverse spiritual and
political movements that
arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the
region in the late 19th century...
- "Negrito-like".
Dixon described these Austronesian po****tions,
which he
called "
Melanesians", in
these terms: a
group “which
occupies much of south-eastern New Guinea...
- In linguistics,
Melanesian is an
obsolete term
referring to the
Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic,
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or...
- The Malayo-Polynesian
languages are a
subgroup of the
Austronesian languages, with
approximately 385.5
million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages...
- Asia from the
island now
known as Taiwan,
gradually displacing native Melanesians to the far
eastern part of the
archipelago as they
spread east, and would...
- and
admixture with Australo-
Melanesian Papuans evident in the
genetics of
modern Polynesians (as well as
Islander Melanesians)
occurred after the settlement...
