Proto-Oceanic (abbreviated as POc) is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor...

reconstructions have also been made, and include Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, Proto-Oceanic, and Proto-Polynesian. Recently, linguists such as Malcolm Ross...

is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto-Oceanic (abbr. "POc"). The Oceanic languages were first shown to be a language family by Sidney...

Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayic Proto-Philippine Proto-Oceanic Proto-Central Pacific language Proto-Polynesian Proto-Admiralty...

from the tip of Santa Isabel to Makira. It is defined by the merger of Proto-Oceanic *l and *R. The fact that there is little diversity amongst these languages...

voiced alveolar tap /ɾ/, not /r/. Proto-Oceanic language Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language Proto-Philippine language Kirch, Patrick...

Palatalized reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic bilabial series Loss of Proto-Oceanic *p before round vowels Unconditioned loss of Proto-Oceanic *y and (ungeminated)...

names in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian from the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Philippine language Proto-Oceanic language...

orogenic events 550 Ma, the Proto-Tethys Ocean formed the eastern part of an oceanic domain (of which the Iapetus and Tornquist oceans formed the western parts)...

Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (eds.). The lexicon of Proto Oceanic : The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Vol. 1. Pacific Linguistics. pp. 115–142...

The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by John Lynch...

Proto-Central Pacific (abbreviated as PCP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Central Pacific languages. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian...

Proto-Micronesian (abbreviated as PMc) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Micronesian languages. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian...

Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise. 1992. The Proto-Oceanic Consonantal System and the Languages of New Caledonia. Oceanic Linguistics 31–2, Winter, 1992 (p.200)...

names in Proto-Philippine from the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language Proto-Oceanic language...

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...

with the one exception being Oceanic, the only large group which is universally accepted; its parent language Proto-Oceanic has been reconstructed in all...

Sometimes, as above, the paragogic vowel is an echo vowel, such as Proto-Oceanic *saqat "bad" > Uneapa zaɣata. The word paragoge is taken from Greek:...

sound changes from Proto-Micronesian. Chuukic-Pohnpeic languages share a number of historical sounds changes from Proto-Oceanic and Proto-Micronesian. Chuukic...

mine the Burstcoin digital cryptocurrency Proto-Oceanic language (POc), the protolanguage ancestral to the Oceanic languages Push to talk over cellular (PoC)...

innovations for it. Proto-Temotu was a phonologically conservative language in many respects, and was evidently an early descendant of Proto-Oceanic. For example...

that Proto-Oceanic had 23 consonant phonemes, and only 13 remained in Proto-Polynesian: unvoiced and voiced stop consonants that contrasted in Proto-Oceanic...

and lexicosemantic innovations relative to Proto-Oceanic, such as the pervasive lenition of Proto-Oceanic *p to *v, the acquisition of a final *-c in...

Proto-South Bougainville lexicon from Evans (2009): Proto-South Bougainville reconstructed lexicon South Bougainville words of likely Proto-Oceanic origin:...

*mansər Proto-Oceanic: *kadroRa; a semantic shift occurred from cuscus to bandicoot (Peramelidae) from Proto-Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian to Proto-Oceanic...

from the Proto-Polynesian greeting *qarofa, which also meant "love, pity, or compassion". It is further thought to be evolved from Proto-Oceanic root *qarop(-i)...

"Was Proto Oceanic Society matrilineal?". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 107 (4): 365–379. JSTOR 20706828. Marck, J. (2008). "Proto Oceanic Society...

these forms originate from Proto-Polynesian *talo, which itself descended from Proto-Oceanic *talos (cf. dalo in Fijian) and Proto-Austronesian *tales (cf...

Pawley A, Osmond M (eds.). The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Vol. 3. Pacific Linguistics. pp. 389–426...

2024. What also spread with Lapita was the ancestral form (Proto-Oceanic) of the Oceanic Austronesian languages still spoken across much of the region...