Central–Eastern Oceanic languages

Central–Eastern Oceanic
Geographic distribution	Eastern Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central–Eastern Oceanic
Proto-language	Proto-Central–Eastern Oceanic
Subdivisions	Southeast Solomonic Southern Oceanic linkage Micronesian Central Pacific
Glottolog	None
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.

See also

• Remote Oceanic languages

References

• Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.