Central–Eastern Oceanic languages
Oceanic language family branch
title: "Central–Eastern Oceanic languages" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["central–eastern-oceanic-languages", "languages-of-oceania", "oceanic-languages"] description: "Oceanic language family branch" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central–Eastern_Oceanic_languages" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Oceanic language family branch ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Language family"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Central–Eastern Oceanic |
| region | Eastern Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Micronesia, and Polynesia |
| familycolor | Austronesian |
| fam2 | Malayo-Polynesian |
| fam3 | Oceanic |
| protoname | Proto-Central–Eastern Oceanic |
| child1 | Southeast Solomonic |
| child2 | Southern Oceanic linkage |
| child3 | Micronesian |
| child4 | Central Pacific |
| glotto | none |
| map | CE Oceanic.svg |
| mapcaption | The branches of CE Oceanic |
| Dark red = Southeast Solomons | |
| Blue = Southern Oceanic | |
| Pink = Micronesian | |
| Ocher = Fijian-Polynesian (not shown: Rapa Nui) | |
| The black oval between red and blue is the Temotu languages. | |
| :: |
|name=Central–Eastern Oceanic |region=Eastern Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Micronesia, and Polynesia |familycolor=Austronesian |fam2=Malayo-Polynesian |fam3=Oceanic |protoname=Proto-Central–Eastern Oceanic |child1=Southeast Solomonic |child2=Southern Oceanic linkage |child3=Micronesian |child4=Central Pacific |glotto=none |map=CE Oceanic.svg |mapcaption=The branches of CE Oceanic Dark red = Southeast Solomons Blue = Southern Oceanic Pink = Micronesian Ocher = Fijian-Polynesian (not shown: Rapa Nui) The black oval between red and blue is the Temotu languages.
The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages.
Languages
Traditional classifications have posited a Remote Oceanic branch within this family, but this was abandoned in Lynch et al. (2002), as no defining features could be found for such a group of languages.
- Southeast Solomonic
- Southern Oceanic linkage (non-Polynesian languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia)
- Micronesian
- Central Pacific (Fijian dialects spoken in Fiji and Polynesian)
In 2007 Ross & Næss moved the Utupua-Vanikoro languages from Central-Eastern Oceanic to the newly established Temotu branch of Oceanic.
References
- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic Languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
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