Melanesian Definition

Melanesian Sentence Examples

• The population is about 2200, the natives being Polynesian, though their language has been classified as Melanesian.

• This is due in part to the different physical conditions there prevailing and in part to the invasion of the north-eastern portion of the continent by a number of plants characteristically Melanesian.

• That they were not indigenous, but had displaced an earlier Melanesian or Papuan race, the true aborigines, is certain.

• None of the colossal structures hitherto described appears to have been erected by the present Melanesian or Polynesian peoples, while their wide diffusion, extending as far as Easter Island, within 400 m.

• The natives, a mixed Polynesian and Melanesian people of Samoan speech, are the most industrious in the Pacific, and many of the young men go as labourers to other islands.