Western Oceanic languages

Western Oceanic
Western Oceanic
Geographic; distribution	Western Pacific
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic; ; ;
Proto-language	Proto-Western Oceanic
Subdivisions	North New Guinea linkage; Meso-Melanesian linkage; Papuan Tip linkage;
Language codes
Glottolog	west2818
	Western Oceanic

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 spoken in New Guinea.

Classification

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:^[1]

North New Guinea linkage
Meso-Melanesian linkage
Papuan Tip linkage

The center of dispersal was evidently ^{[citation needed]}near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.

Notes

^ 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.

[1] Lynch, Ross & Crowley 2002.

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