Southern Oceanic languages

Southern Oceanic languages

Infobox Language family
name=Southern Oceanic
region=The Pacific
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Nuclear MP
fam4=Central-Eastern MP
fam5=Eastern MP
fam6=Oceanic
fam7=Central-Eastern
child1=Northern Vanuatu
child2=Nuclear Southern Oceanic|

The Southern Oceanic languages, or Southern Oceanic linkage, is a branch of Oceanic proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley (2002).

Components

*Northern Vanuatu linkage
*Nuclear Southern Oceanic linkage:
**Central Vanuatu linkage
**South Efate-Southern Melanesian linkage:
***South Efate language
***Southern Melanesian linkage:
****Southern Vanuatu languages
****New Caledonian languages:
*****Mainland New Caledonian languages
*****Loyalty Island languages

References

Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. "The Oceanic languages." Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.


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