Arapesh
Americannoun
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a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.
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a group of several related languages spoken by the Arapesh.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Arapesh
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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When trying to point to a really nonviolent community, anthropologists are usually forced to resort to the Arapesh of New Guinea or the Pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Arawaks and Caribs are good examples, and Mead was told about the Mundugumor by the Arapesh tribe.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had read Margaret Mead's anthropological studies of the Arapesh, the Mundugumor and the Tschambuli societies in New Guinea .
From Time Magazine Archive
On another occasion I had to review research on English, French, Hebrew, German, Chinese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Arapesh, a language spoken in New Guinea.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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