Western Oceanic languages
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| Geographic distribution: | Western Pacific |
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| 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]
- North New Guinea linkage
- Meso-Melanesian linkage
- Papuan Tip linkage
The center of dispersal was evidently near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.
Notes
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Oceanic linkage". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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