Southern Oceanic languages

Southern Oceanic
Geographic
distribution:
Vanuatu, New Caledonia
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Subdivisions:
  • Vanuatu (various branches)
  • New Caledonia
Glottolog: None

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  Southern Oceanic

The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage of Oceanic spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley in 2002 and supported by later analysis. They suspect that it is a linkage rather than a straightforward family.

Languages

Lynch (1995) tentatively grouped the languages as follows:[1]

This organization is rather impressionistic. The non-nuclear branches are subsumed under the name Northern Vanuatu, but this is a residual group of languages with no defining features.

Clark (2009) has a slightly different structure for the northern and central languages:

North–Central Vanuatu

The Southern Vanuatu and New Caledonian languages were not addressed.

References

  1. Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002:112)


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