Remote Oceanic languages
Subgroup of Austronesian languages
title: "Remote Oceanic languages" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["oceanic-languages", "central–eastern-oceanic-languages"] description: "Subgroup of Austronesian languages" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Oceanic_languages" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Subgroup of Austronesian languages ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Language family"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Remote Oceanic |
| acceptance | proposed |
| region | Oceania, Polynesia |
| familycolor | Austronesian |
| fam2 | Malayo-Polynesian |
| fam3 | Central–Eastern |
| fam4 | Eastern Malayo-Polynesian? |
| fam5 | Oceanic |
| fam6 | Central-Eastern Oceanic |
| child1 | Central Pacific |
| child2 | Eastern Outer Islands |
| child3 | Loyalty Islands |
| child4 | Micronesian |
| child5 | New Caledonian |
| child6 | North and Central Vanuatu |
| glotto | none |
| map | CE Oceanic.svg |
| :: |
|name = Remote Oceanic |acceptance = proposed |region = Oceania, Polynesia |familycolor = Austronesian |fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian |fam3 = Central–Eastern |fam4 = Eastern Malayo-Polynesian? |fam5 = Oceanic |fam6 = Central-Eastern Oceanic |child1 = Central Pacific |child2 = Eastern Outer Islands |child3 = Loyalty Islands |child4 = Micronesian |child5 = New Caledonian |child6 = North and Central Vanuatu |glotto = none |map = CE Oceanic.svg |mapcaption =
A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.
Languages
Its components are:
- Central Pacific languages
- Eastern Outer Islands languages
- Loyalty Islands languages
- Micronesian languages
- New Caledonian languages
- North and Central Vanuatu languages
References
- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
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