Western Oceanic languages

Western Oceanic
Geographic
distribution		 Western Pacific
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
Glottolog west2818[1]
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  Western Oceanic

The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988).

Classification

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:[2]

The center of dispersal was evidently near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.

Notes

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Oceanic linkage". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ 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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