Southern Oceanic languages
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| Southern Oceanic | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
The Pacific |
| Genetic classification: |
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central-Eastern MP Eastern MP Oceanic Central-Eastern Southern Oceanic |
| Subdivisions: |
Nuclear Southern Oceanic
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The Southern Oceanic languages, or Southern Oceanic linkage, is a branch of Oceanic proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley (2002).
[edit] Components
- Northern Vanuatu linkage
- Nuclear Southern Oceanic linkage:
- Central Vanuatu linkage
- South Efate-Southern Melanesian linkage:
- South Efate language
- Southern Melanesian linkage:
- Southern Vanuatu languages
- New Caledonian languages:
[edit] References
Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
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