Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages.
Central–Eastern Oceanic | |
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Geographic distribution | The Pacific |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | None |
![]() The branches of CE Oceanic Dark red = Southeast Solomons Blue = Southern Oceanic Pink = Micronesian Ocher = Fijian-Polynesian (not shown: Rapa Nui) The black oval between red and blue is the Temotu languages. |
Languages
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.
gollark: Don't modern militaries mostly require specialists *anyway*?
gollark: Do you know what "arbitrary" means?
gollark: Sense of community: any team activity ever.Making friends: any team activity ever.Educating people: school, somewhat.Discipline: don't know, probably can be figured out.
gollark: You can do those WITHOUT forcing people to spend time in the military, via optional things?
gollark: As vaguely bad as school is, I prefer it over an environment where you are expected to blindly follow orders, have no privacy/free time/etc, and do physical activity lots.
See also
References
- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
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