Central-Eastern Oceanic languages

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Central-Eastern Oceanic
Geographic distribution:	The Pacific
Genetic classification:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian (MP)   Nuclear MP    Central-Eastern MP     Eastern MP      Oceanic       Central-Eastern Oceanic
Subdivisions:	Southeast Solomons Utupua-Vanikoro Southern Oceanic linkage Central Pacific linkage Micronesian

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

[edit] 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:
  • Utupua
  • Vanikoro
• Southern Oceanic linkage (languages of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, such as Paicî)
• Central Pacific linkage (Polynesian and the languages of Fiji)
• Micronesian

[edit] References

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