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Remote Oceanic languages

Index Remote Oceanic languages

A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Central Pacific languages, Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, Central–Eastern Oceanic languages, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Micronesian languages, New Caledonian languages, Oceania, Oceanic languages, Polynesia, Remote Oceania, Southern Oceanic languages, Temotu languages.

  2. Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
  3. Oceanic languages

Central Pacific languages

The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Remote Oceanic languages and Central Pacific languages are Central–Eastern Oceanic languages.

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Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993).

See Remote Oceanic languages and Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages

Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

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

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Malayo-Polynesian languages

The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers.

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Micronesian languages

The twenty Micronesian languages form a family of Oceanic languages. Remote Oceanic languages and Micronesian languages are Central–Eastern Oceanic languages.

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New Caledonian languages

The thirty New Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages.

See Remote Oceanic languages and New Caledonian languages

Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Oceanic languages

The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Remote Oceania

Remote Oceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro from the Marianas Islands, all Micronesian Islands (such as the Caroline Islands including Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae and the Line Islands including Kiribati), south-eastern Island Melanesia and islands in the open Pacific east of the Solomon Islands: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu.

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Southern Oceanic languages

The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Remote Oceanic languages and Southern Oceanic languages are Central–Eastern Oceanic languages.

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Temotu languages

The Temotu languages, named after Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, are a branch of Oceanic languages proposed in Ross & Næss (2007) to unify the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages with Utupua and Vanikoro, each a group of three related languages. Remote Oceanic languages and Temotu languages are Oceanic languages.

See Remote Oceanic languages and Temotu languages

See also

Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

Oceanic languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Oceanic_languages

Also known as Remote Oceanic.