Western Oceanic languages
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| Western Oceanic | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Western Pacific |
| Linguistic classification: |
Austronesian
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| Ethnologue code: | 17-1402 |
 Western Oceanic | |
The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Malcolm Ross (1988).
Classification
The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:[1]
- North New Guinea linkage
- Meso-Melanesian linkage
- Papuan Tip linkage
The center of dispersal was evidently near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.
Notes
- ↑ Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 9780700711284. OCLC 48929366.
References
- Ross, Malcolm D. (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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