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...
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The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia,...
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Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. Their speakers are known as Kanaks. One language is extinct...
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The twenty Micronesian languages form a family of Oceanic languages. Micronesian languages are known for their lack of plain labial consonants; they have...
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The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages. Traditional classifications...
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principal oceanic divisions, smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, and larger than the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using...
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The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa)...
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non-Austronesian Papuan languages in contact with Oceanic languages. In turn, most Polynesian languages, and several languages of New Caledonia, have the...
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The Central Vanuatu languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in central Vanuatu. Clark (2009) provides the following classification...
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Island Melanesia (section Languages)
Remote Oceania Central–Eastern Oceanic languages Oceanic languages Remote Oceanic languages Southern Oceanic languages Bougainville Fiji New Caledonia...
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The family of Southeast Solomonic languages forms a branch of the Oceanic languages. It consists of some 26 languages covering the Eastern Solomon Islands...
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predominant language. The collectivity is also home to about thirty New Caledonian languages, which form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages. They are...
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Consonant mutation (category Celtic languages)
several languages in the Southern Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Initial consonant mutation occurs in many Central Vanuatu languages like...
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indigenous Oceanic languages. The country's three official languages are of foreign origin: English, French, and Bislama, an English-based creole language. Additional...
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earlier classifications, linguist and Oceanic languages specialist John Lynch (2016) considered the Malakula languages to form a coherent group. One distinctive...
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linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in northern Vanuatu. Clark (2009) provides the following classification of the North Vanuatu languages, divided...
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while their cold variants and subpolar oceanic climates occur near polar or tundra regions. Locations with oceanic climates tend to feature frequent cloudy...
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The Southern Mindoro (South Mangyan) languages are one of two small clusters of Austronesian languages spoken by the Mangyan people of Mindoro Island in...
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Geologically, an ocean is an area of oceanic crust covered by water. Though generally described as several separate oceans, the world's oceanic waters constitute...
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Franjieh, Michael; Schnell, Stefan (eds.), The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, Canberra: Asia Pacific...
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The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands. They may include Yapese, which has proven...
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these languages make up the Southern Oceanic languages which is a linkage to the Oceanic languages and classified under the Austronesian language family...
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The Torres–Banks languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in the Torres Islands and Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu. François (2011)...
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Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the...
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Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken...
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The Espiritu Santo languages (alternatively Santo languages) are a group of North Vanuatu languages spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu...
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is an Oceanic language spoken by 4,000 people on Malo and nearby islands in Vanuatu. It is one of the most conservative Southern Oceanic languages. The...
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Proto-Oceanic, and Proto-Polynesian. Recently, linguists such as Malcolm Ross and Andrew Pawley have built large lexicons for Proto-Oceanic and Proto-Polynesian...
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Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending...
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Languages, Cape York Peninsula, Australia; A Research Report". Oceanic Linguistics. 3 (2). Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 3, No. 2: 248–265. doi:10.2307/3622881...
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