The branches of Oceanic (The bottom four could be grouped under one branch, -Central Eastern Oceanic)
Admiralties and Yapese
St Matthias
Western Oceanic
Temotu
Southeast Solomons
Southern Oceanic
Micronesian
Fijian–Polynesian
The black ovals at the northwestern limit of Micronesia are the non-Oceanic Malayo-Polynesian languages Palauan and Chamorro. The black circles inside the green circles are offshore Papuan languages.
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages are spoken by only two million people. The largest individual Oceanic languages are Eastern Fijian with over 600,000 speakers, and Samoan with an estimated 400,000 speakers. The Gilbertese (Kiribati), Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Tolai (Gazelle Peninsula) languages each have over 100,000 speakers. The common ancestor which is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto-Oceanic (abbr. "POc").
The approximately 450 Oceaniclanguages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia,...
Western Oceaniclanguages is a linkage of Oceaniclanguages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988). They make up a majority of the Austronesian languages spoken...
Temotu languages and the Northwest Solomonic languages of the western Solomon Islands, Geraghty (2017) notes that many Southern Oceaniclanguages are often...
family of some 200 Remote Oceaniclanguages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceaniclanguages. However, it was abandoned...
The twenty Micronesian languages form a family of Oceaniclanguages. Micronesian languages are known for their lack of plain labial consonants; they have...
The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceaniclanguages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Ross et...
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and many Oceaniclanguages. Unlike in the languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, tonal contrasts are extremely rare in Austronesian languages. Exceptional...
The family of Southeast Solomonic languages forms a branch of the Oceaniclanguages. It consists of some 26 languages covering the Eastern Solomon Islands...
The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceaniclanguages spoken on the Admiralty Islands. They may include Yapese, which has proven...
Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceaniclanguages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct...
Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing...
The Temotu languages, named after Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, are a branch of Oceaniclanguages proposed in Ross & Næss (2007) to unify the...
Austronesian languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, most of which are classified as Western Oceaniclanguages, as well as some Admiralty Islands languages and Polynesian...
the Oceanic branch of that family. It has been difficult to classify it further, but Yapese may prove to be one of the Admiralty Islands languages. The...
constitute a separate branch of Western Oceanic. Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific...
The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceaniclanguages, spoken in Tafea Province (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa)...
predominant language. The collectivity is also home to about thirty New Caledonian languages, which form a branch of the Southern Oceaniclanguages. They are...
translations into Oceaniclanguages have a relatively closely related and recent history. The Oceaniclanguages tree also encompasses other languages, such as...
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indigenous Oceaniclanguages. The country's three official languages are of foreign origin: English, French, and Bislama, an English-based creole language. Additional...
earlier classifications, linguist and Oceaniclanguages specialist John Lynch (2016) considered the Malakula languages to form a coherent group. One distinctive...
Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific...
The Central Vanuatu languages form a linkage of Southern Oceaniclanguages spoken in central Vanuatu. Clark (2009) provides the following classification...
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