Western Oceanic languages

Western Oceanic
Geographic
distribution:
Western Pacific
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: west2818[1]

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  Western Oceanic

The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988).

Classification

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:[2]

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

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Oceanic linkage". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Lynch, Ross & Crowley 2002.

References

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