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Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

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Geographicdistribution:
  
The Pacific

Glottolog:
  
None

Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

Linguistic classification:
  
AustronesianMalayo-Polynesian (MP)Nuclear MPEastern MP ?OceanicCentral–Eastern Oceanic

Subdivisions:
  
Southeast SolomonsSouthern Oceanic linkageCentral Pacific linkageMicronesian

The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages.

Components

Traditional classifications have posited a Remote Oceanic branch within this family, but this was abandoned in Lynch et al. (2002), as no defining features could be found for such a group of languages.

  • Southeast Solomons
  • Southern Oceanic linkage (languages of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, such as Paicî)
  • Central Pacific (Polynesian and the indigenous Austronesian languages of Fiji)
  • Micronesian

    • In 2007 Ross & Næss moved the Utupua-Vanikoro languages from Central-Eastern to the newly established Temotu branch of Oceanic.

    References

    Central–Eastern Oceanic languages Wikipedia
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