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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to a group of languages spoken in Polynesian outliers in Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, and the northern Solomon Islands, as well as Tuvalu.

Etymology

From Ellice + -an, named from the Ellice Islands (colonial name of Tuvalu).

Related phrases

papua new guineasolomon islands

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