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31 relations: Anthropology, Australian National University, Australian Skeptics, Canberra, Colin Groves, Darrell Tryon, David Vernon (writer), Enochian, Glossolalia, John Dee, Kwomtari–Fas languages, Malcolm Ross (linguist), Mediumship, Mensa International, Ndu languages, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Papuan languages, Piawi languages, Ramu–Lower Sepik languages, Ribaldry, Sepik, Sepik languages, Sepik–Ramu languages, Simon Brown (author), Stephen Wurm, Tarot, Torricelli languages, University of Adelaide, University of Newcastle (Australia), William A. Foley.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Australian Skeptics
Australian Skeptics is a loose confederation of like-minded organisations across Australia that began in 1980.
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Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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Colin Groves
Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
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Darrell Tryon
Darrell T. Tryon (20 July 1942 – 15 May 2013) was a New Zealand-born linguist, academic, and specialist in Austronesian languages.
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David Vernon (writer)
David Vernon (born 1965 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian writer and publisher.
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Enochian
Enochian is a name often applied to an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England.
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Glossolalia
Glossolalia or speaking in tongues is a phenomenon in which people appear to speak in languages unknown to them.
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John Dee
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
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Kwomtari–Fas languages
The Kwomtari–Fas languages, often referred to ambiguously as Kwomtari, are a dubious language family of six languages spoken by some 4,000 people in the north of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesia.
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Malcolm Ross (linguist)
Malcolm David Ross (born 1942) is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University.
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Mediumship
Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
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Mensa International
Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.
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Ndu languages
The Ndu languages are the best known family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people.
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Piawi languages
The Piawi languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, which had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal.
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Ramu–Lower Sepik languages
The Ramu–Lower Sepik Lower Sepik–Ramu languages are a proposed family of 35 Papuan languages spoken in the Ramu and Sepik river basins of northern Papua New Guinea.
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Ribaldry
Ribaldry, or blue comedy, is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to gross indecency.
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Sepik
The Sepik River is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and after the Fly and the Mamberamo the third largest by volume.
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Sepik languages
The Sepik languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here.
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Sepik–Ramu languages
The Sepik–Ramu languages are a hypothetical language family of New Guinea linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor–Pondo (Lower Sepik), Leonhard Schultze (Walio–Papi) and Yuat families, together with the Taiap language isolate, and proposed by Donald Laycock in 1973.
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Simon Brown (author)
Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian Science Fiction writer.
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Stephen Wurm
Stephen Adolphe Wurm (19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001) was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.
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Tarot
The tarot (first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot.
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Torricelli languages
The Torricelli languages are a family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80,000 people.
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University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia.
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University of Newcastle (Australia)
The University of Newcastle (UoN), informally known as Newcastle University, is an Australian public university established in 1965.
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William A. Foley
William A. Foley (William Auguste "Bill" Foley; born 1949) is an American linguist and professor at the University of Sydney.
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