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Kanak

//kəˈnæk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia.

    "In the working-class districts of Nouméa, which have a high population of indigenous Kanak residents, buildings were burned and wrecked vehicles remained in the middle of the road."

Etymology

First attested in 1910, borrowed from French canaque, from English kanaka (“Pacific islander”), from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).

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