Western Oceanic languages

The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988).

Western Oceanic
Geographic
distribution
Western Pacific
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
Glottologwest2818[1]
  Western Oceanic

Classification

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:[2]

The center of dispersal was evidently near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Oceanic linkage". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Lynch, Ross & Crowley 2002.
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