Papua New Guinean

adjective

: of, relating to, or characteristic of Papua New Guinea or its people

Papua New Guinean noun

plural Papua New Guineans

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First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Papua New Guinean was in 1965

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