Word: niu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solution for New Guineans but it was a slight to them. Not so, said the council. Besides being pidgin, niugini is made up of two words taken from the most widely used Papuan dialect, Motu. True, answered Papua critics, but surely the council knew what the Motu words mean: niu is coconut, and gini is stand...