Western_Oceanic_languages

Western Oceanic languages

Western Oceanic languages

Linkage of Oceanic languages

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.

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Classification

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

  1. [1]
    Lynch, Ross & Crowley 2002.

References

  • 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.
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