:Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
{{Short description|Oceanic language family branch}}
{{Infobox Language family
|name=Central–Eastern Oceanic
|region=Eastern Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Oceanic
|protoname=Proto-Central–Eastern Oceanic
|child1=Southeast Solomonic
|child2=Southern Oceanic linkage
|child3=Micronesian
|child4=Central Pacific
|glotto=none
|map=CE Oceanic.svg
|mapcaption=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.
}}
The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian 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 Solomonic
- Southern Oceanic linkage (non-Polynesian languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia)
- Micronesian
- Central Pacific (Fijian dialects spoken in Fiji and Polynesian)
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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