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The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [2] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
The Mundugumor a.k.a. Biwat are an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea. They live on the Yuat River in East Sepik Province , Papua New Guinea, and speak the Mundugumor language . Anthropological studies by Margaret Mead
Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. [1] Most speak one of the many languages of the Austronesian language family (especially ones in the Oceanic branch) or one of the many unrelated families of Papuan languages.
Percentage of indigenous peoples of Oceania in Oceania by country Dani people from the Baliem Valley in Highland Papua, Indonesia. In New Zealand, according to the 2018 census, 16% of the population identified as being of Māori descent. Many of those same people also identified as being descended from other ethnic groups, such as European. [22]
The Kaluli are a clan of indigenous peoples who live in the rain forests of the Great Papuan Plateau in Papua New Guinea.The Kaluli, who numbered approximately 2,000 people in 1987, are the most numerous and well documented by post-contact ethnographers and missionaries among the four language-clans of Bosavi kalu ("men or people of Bosavi") that speak non-Austronesian languages.
Indigenous Papuan peoples of West Papua and Papua New Guinea, other The Huli are an indigenous Melanesian ethnic group who reside in Hela Province of Papua New Guinea . They speak mainly Huli and Tok Pisin ; many also speak some of the surrounding languages, and some also speak English .
Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world [117] with an estimated 8.95 million inhabitants as of 2020. [118] There are hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans, whose ancestors
The Motu are native inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, living along the southern coastal area of the country. Their indigenous language is also known as Motu , and like several other languages of the region is an Austronesian language.