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The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific island of New Guinea and neighbouring islands that are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.

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