Temotu languages
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| Geographic distribution: | Solomon Islands |
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| Glottolog: | temo1244[1] |
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Temotu | |
The Temotu languages, named after Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands, are a branch of Oceanic languages proposed in Ross & Næss 2007 for the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages. These languages had previously been considered Papuan, but Ross & Næss established that the closest relatives were the Utupua–Vanikoro languages, previously thought to be Central–Eastern Oceanic.[2]
Map showing the ten languages of the Temotu group, plus the Polynesian language Vaeakau-Taumako.
- Reef Islands–Santa Cruz
- Utupua–Vanikoro (may be two independent branches)
Ethnologue does not accept the Vanikoro node.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Temotu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ross, Malcolm and Åshild Næss (2007). "An Oceanic Origin for Äiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands?". Oceanic Linguistics 46: 456–498. doi:10.1353/ol.2008.0003.
- ↑ François, Alexandre (2009), "The languages of Vanikoro: Three lexicons and one grammar" (PDF), in Evans, Bethwyn, Discovering history through language: Papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics 605, Canberra: Australian National University, pp. 103–126
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