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Trans-New Guinea

Trans-New Guinea proper noun: a major language family spoken in large parts of New Guinea.

Proper noun

Trans-New Guinea

  1. A major language family spoken in large parts of New Guinea.
    • The squares of the numbers 1 to 10 are spelt out in the Ndom³ language, in arbitrary order: […] ³ The Ndom language belongs to the Trans-New Guinea family. It is spoken by about 1200 people on the isle of Kolopom (Pulau Kolepom, Pulau Kimaam or Pulau Dolok, formerly Frederick Hendrik Island) off...2007, Ivan Derzhanski, “Fifth International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics”, in International Linguistics Olympiad, page 3

Origin of Trans-New Guinea

From trans- + New Guinea.

Words formed from Trans-New Guinea

Questions about Trans-New Guinea

What does Trans-New Guinea mean?
Trans-New Guinea means a major language family spoken in large parts of New Guinea.
What part of speech is Trans-New Guinea?
Trans-New Guinea is a proper noun.

Words near Trans-New Guinea in the dictionary

  1. trans-misogynists
  2. trans-mountain
  3. trans-Neptunian
  4. trans-Neptunian object
  5. trans-Neptunian objects
  6. Trans-New Guinea
  7. Trans-New Guinean
  8. trans-Oceania
  9. trans-Pacific
  10. trans-phenomenal
  11. trans-ship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Trans-New Guinea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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