Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. Most speak one of...
Look up Melanesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melanesian is the adjectival form of Melanesia. It may refer to: MelanesiansMelanesian mythology...
d'Urville characterized Melanesians as a distinct racial group. : 165 Over time, however, Europeans increasingly viewed Melanesians as a distinct cultural...
In linguistics, Melanesian is an obsolete term referring to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or...
Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin...
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is an intergovernmental organization, composed of the four Melanesian states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands...
Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tonga, and includes the Melanesian Cup and Polynesian Cup The three match State of Origin series (June –...
The concept of Melanesian socialism was first advocated by Father Walter Lin̄i of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), who became the country's first Prime...
Christianity portal The Melanesian Brotherhood is an Anglican religious community of men in simple vows based primarily in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu...
The Melanesian scrubfowl or Melanesian megapode (Megapodius eremita) is a megapode species that is endemic to islands within Melanesia. The Melanesian scrubfowl...
Melanesia Cup is an association football championship played between the Melanesian football clubs. The first edition of the cup was held in 2014. The tournament...
The East Melanesian Islands, also known as the Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck moist forests, is a biogeographic region in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania...
Melanesian cuckooshrike is a common name for several birds in the genus Coracina and may refer to: North Melanesian cuckooshrike (Coracina welchmani)...
Melanesian mythology refers to the folklore, myths, and religions of Melanesia, a region in Southwest Oceania that encompasses the archipelagos of New...
of the "Mongolian" race was favoured, as was polygenism. The Australo-Melanesian populations of Southeast Asia and Melanesia (whom Blumenbach initially...
Christianity portal The Melanesian Mission is an Anglican missionary agency supporting the work of local Anglican churches in Melanesia. It was founded...
Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and Fiji as well as various other Melanesian and Polynesian islands. There is a debate among anthropologists on how...
Black women are of sub-Saharan African, Indigenous Australian, and Melanesian descent. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw developed the theory of intersectionality...
African (including Malagasy people) or Melanesian ancestry. It also includes people of mixed African/Melanesian and French ancestry. Although it is illegal...
Regional variants African Arab British Burmese Chinese European Israeli Melanesian Nicaraguan Tanzanian Venezuelan Vietnamese Current and historical socialist...
Regional variants African Arab British Burmese Chinese European Israeli Melanesian Nicaraguan Tanzanian Venezuelan Vietnamese Current and historical socialist...
and admixture with Australo-Melanesian Papuans evident in the genetics of modern Polynesians (as well as Islander Melanesians) occurred after the settlement...
The Pan Melanesian Congress was a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was established in late 2001 by Karimui-Nomane MP Simeon Wai, with Wai as parliamentary...
LCCN 53060474. Agreement Establishing the Melanesian Spearhead Group Archived 3 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Melanesian Spearhead Group Trade Agreement. MSG:...
were displaced by the Melanesians about a thousand years later. (Both Samoans and subsequent Polynesian cultures adopted Melanesian painting and tattoo...
Tabalia is the name of the Mother House of the Melanesian Brotherhood (MBH) on northeastern Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Tabalia (pronounced "TAHM...
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