Admiralty Islands languages
{{Short description|Oceanic language group}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Admiralty Islands
|region=Admiralty Islands
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Oceanic
|protoname=Proto-Admiralty Islands (Proto-Admiralty)
|child1=Eastern Admiralty Islands
|child2=Western Admiralty Islands
|child3=Yapese ?
|map=Oceanic languages.svg
|mapcaption={{legend|#FF8000|Admiralties and Yapese}}
|glotto=admi1239
|glottorefname=Admiralty Islands
}}
The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands. They may include Yapese, which has proven difficult to classify.
Languages
According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is:{{cite book | last = Lynch | first = John | author-link = John Lynch (linguist) | author2 = Malcolm Ross | author2-link = Malcolm Ross (linguist) | author3 = Terry Crowley | author3-link = Terry Crowley (linguist)| year = 2002 | title = The Oceanic languages | location = Richmond, Surrey | publisher = Curzon | isbn = 978-0-7007-1128-4 | oclc = 48929366 }}
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- Admiralty Islands languages
- Eastern
- Manus
- Southeast
- Baluan-Pam
- Lenkau
- Lou
- Nauna, Penchal
- Western
- Northern Kaniet and Southern Kaniet ({{extinct}})
- Seimat
- Wuvulu-Aua (as two languages)
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As noted, Yapese and Nguluwan may be part of the Admiralty Islands languages as well.
References
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- Blust, Robert (2007). The prenasalised trills of Manus. In Language description, history, and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, ed. by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch, and Diana Eades, pp. 297–311. Creole Language Library vol. 30. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Bowern, Claire (2011). Sivisa Titan: Sketch grammar, texts, vocabulary based on material collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 38. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
- Hamel, Patricia J. (1994). A grammar and lexicon of Loniu, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics C-103. Canberra: The Australian National University. 275 pp.
- Hamel, Patricia J. (1993). Serial verbs in Loniu and an evolving preposition. Oceanic Linguistics 32:111–132.
- Ross, M. D. (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia. Pacific Linguistics C-98. Canberra: The Australian National University. 487 pp.
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