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The mainland New Guinea and surrounding islands have over 1, 000 highly discrete languages located within them and the component State of Papua New Guinea with a population of barely 3 million has 760 of these (1). As culture stems from language, each one gives rise to and characterises a distinct cultural-linguistic group of people. Such separateness is attributed to the mountainous terrain and many waves of migration throughout history.
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Burton-Bradley, B.G. (1985). Nosology and Traditional Therapy in Papua New Guinea. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry The State of the Art. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1853-9_104
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