A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the
Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.
Languages
Its components are:
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Central Pacific languages
The Central Pacific languages, also known as Fijian–Polynesian languages, are a branch of the Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia
Polynesia ( , ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over th ...
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Eastern Outer Islands languages
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Loyalty Islands languages
The thirty New Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct, one is critically endangered, four are severely endangered, five are ...
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Micronesian languages
The Micronesian languages form a family of Oceanic languages. The twenty languages are known for their lack of plain labial consonant and have instead two series, palatalized and labio-velarized labials, similar to the related Kanak languages ...
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New Caledonian languages
The thirty New Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct, one is critically endangered, four are severely endangered, five are ...
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North and Central Vanuatu languages
References
* Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). ''The Oceanic languages.'' Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
See also
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Oceanic languages
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...
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Remote Oceania
Remote Oceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro from the Mariana Islands, all Micronesian Islands (such as the Caroline Islands includi ...
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Oceanic languages
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages