Central–Eastern_Oceanic_languages

Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

Oceanic language family branch

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

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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.

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

See also

References

  • Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
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