1A member of a Melanesian people of Papua New Guinea inhabiting the area around Port Moresby.
莫图人（巴布亚新几内亚境内一美拉尼西亚族成员，居住在莫尔兹比港周围）
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Maintaining the distinctiveness of their culture in the face of urbanization and modernization is a challenge for the present-day Motu.
The Motu inhabit a region which now includes the capital city, Port Moresby, and the Hula live about 110 kilometres to the east.
Some Motu also speak Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) and English.
The Hula and the Motu are only two of many Melanesian societies that have been Christianised for more than a century and we have seen here the problematic engagement of Christianity in the matters of history and tradition.
The battle was to avenge the death of Kevau Dagora's father, who died in a massacre by the Lakwaharn at Taurama, the ancestral village of the Western Motu.
2mass nounThe language of the Motu, the base of a pidgin known as Hiri Motu or (formerly) Police Motu, widely used as a lingua franca for administrative purposes.
莫图土语
adjectiveˈməʊtuː
Relating to the Motu or their language.
（与）莫图人（有关）的；（与）莫图土语（有关）的
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For example, adult Pari villagers politicise language, like most other Motu villages.
The choice of language for Motu greetings is the most important aspect of an interaction.
The Christian Gospels were translated into the Motu language by 1885.
Although it is identified as a Motu village, it contains a significant number of Koitabu people.
Nor are generalities about the engagement with Christianity within one or the other group, as individual Motu and Hula villages have unique histories.
Christianity is unreflectively experienced as part of the village's identity, a resource defending Motu integrity against a threatening alien sociality.