Remote Oceanic languages
| Remote Oceanic | |
|---|---|
| (proposed) | |
| Geographic distribution | Oceania, Polynesia |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
|
| Subdivisions | Central Pacific
North and Central Vanuatu |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
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A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.
Languages
[edit]Its components are:
- Central Pacific languages
- Eastern Outer Islands languages
- Loyalty Islands languages
- Micronesian languages
- New Caledonian languages
- North and Central Vanuatu languages
References
[edit]- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.