| Indo-Melanesian | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: |
Malay Archipelago and the Pacific |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions: |
Bornean ?
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The Indo-Melanesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian language family covering all of the Malay Archipelago and Pacific apart from the Philippines and the northern arm of Sulawesi.
A 2008 lexicostatistical analysis found nearly full support for the unity of the Indo-Melanesian languages. It found poor support for a Bornean branch, and moderate support for a Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian proposed by Wouk and Ross (2002) on the basis of shared grammatical innovations:
Given the poor support for the unity of the Bornean languages, and indeed many of the constituent branches that have been proposed for Bornean, the established clades are listed separately here. There are in addition a large number of Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian clades.