Western Oceanic languages

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Western Oceanic
Geographic
distribution
Western Pacific
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Proto-languageProto-Western Oceanic
Subdivisions
Glottologwest2818
  Western Oceanic

The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988). They make up a majority of the Austronesian languages spoken in New Guinea.

Classification[edit]

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:[1]

The center of dispersal was evidently[citation needed]near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  • Lynch, John; Ross, Malcolm; Crowley, Terry (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 9780700711284. OCLC 48929366.
  • Ross, Malcolm D. (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.