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matang

Bingham

mæ/tang

n. the white man's country.
a. foreign.

Sabatier

matang

n. homeland of ancestors to which souls of dead return (appears to be situated in West perhaps Madang).
aba ni matang: land of the white man.
ex. te I-matang, Imatang: person(s) of white race.

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