CENTRAL-EASTERN OCEANIC LANGUAGES

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

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Components

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Components

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 Solomons

★ ?Utupua-Vanikoro. May be two independent branches:

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★ Utupua

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★ Vanikoro

★ Southern Oceanic linkage (languages of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, such as Paicĩ)

★ Central Pacific linkage (Polynesian and the languages of Fiji)

★ Micronesian

Reference

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