Remote Oceanic languages
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.
| Remote Oceanic | |
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| (proposed) | |
| Geographic distribution | Oceania, Polynesia |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | None |
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Languages
Its components were,
- Central Pacific languages
- Eastern Outer Islands languages
- Loyalty Islands languages
- Micronesian languages
- New Caledonian languages
- North and Central Vanuatu languages
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References
- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
See also
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