Talk:Melanesian languages

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This is wrong. Melanesia is named after the language-group, not the other way around. 202.1.53.80 12:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

There is no such language group. There was once assumed to be (at least within Malayo-Polynesian), but that classification was based on race: Melanesia was where a purported race of people lived, and their languages were called Melanesian. kwami 12:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)