Oceanic languages Totally Explained

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The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia.
Despite covering such a vast area, Oceanic languages are spoken by less than two million people. The largest individual Oceanic languages are Samoan and Eastern Fijian, with over 300,000 speakers. Kiribati (Gilbertese), Tongan, and perhaps Kuanua (Tolai) have 100,000 speakers apiece.
The common ancestor which is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto Oceanic (abbr. POc).

Classification

St Matthias
Yapese
Admiralties
- Western Admiralties
- Eastern Admiralties
Western Oceanic linkage (languages of the north coast of New Guinea, from Jayapura to the Solomon Islands)
- Sarmi-Jayapura Bay
- North New Guinea cluster
- Papuan Tip cluster
- Meso-Melanesian cluster (languages of the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands)
Temotu
- Reef Islands-Santa Cruz
- Utupua-Vanikoro
Central-Eastern Oceanic (languages of the open Pacific)
- Southeast Solomons
- Southern Oceanic linkage (languages of New Caledonia and Vanuatu)
- Central Pacific linkage (Polynesian and the languages of Fiji)
- Micronesian

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