| Southern Oceanic | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
The Pacific |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions: |
Vanuatu
New Caledonia
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Southern Oceanic
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The Southern Oceanic languages are a branch of Oceanic proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley in 2002 and supported by later analysis.
A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] supports the following classification. Each node is fully supported.