Southern Oceanic languages
4490839
212829530
2008-05-16T13:37:01Z
Tropylium
400620
recategorized
{{Infobox Language family
|name=Southern Oceanic
|region=The [[Pacific]]
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]] (MP)
|fam3=[[Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages|Nuclear MP]]
|fam4=[[Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages|Central-Eastern MP]]
|fam5=[[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages|Eastern MP]]
|fam6=[[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]]
|fam7=[[Central-Eastern Oceanic languages|Central-Eastern]]
|child1=[[North Vanuatu languages|Northern Vanuatu]]
|child2=Nuclear Southern Oceanic
|}}
The '''Southern Oceanic languages''', or '''Southern Oceanic [[linkage (linguistics)|linkage]]''', is a branch of [[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]] proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley (2002).
==Components==
*[[North Vanuatu languages|Northern Vanuatu linkage]]
*Nuclear Southern Oceanic linkage:
**[[Central Vanuatu languages|Central Vanuatu linkage]]
**South Efate-Southern Melanesian linkage:
***[[South Efate language]]
***Southern Melanesian linkage:
****[[South Vanuatu languages|Southern Vanuatu languages]]
****New Caledonian languages:
*****[[New Caledonian languages|Mainland New Caledonian languages]]
*****[[Loyalty Island languages]]
== References ==
[[Lynch, John]], [[Malcolm Ross]] & [[Terry Crowley (linguist)|Terry Crowley]]. 2002. ''The Oceanic languages.'' Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
[[Category:Central-Eastern Oceanic languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Oceania]]
{{au-lang-stub}}