Remote Oceanic languages

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A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.

Its components were,

• Central Pacific languages
• Eastern Outer Islands languages
• Loyalty Islands languages
• Micronesian languages
• New Caledonian languages
• North and Central Vanuatu languages

[edit] References

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