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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Oceania , ( Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia )
- Linguistic classification
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic
- Proto language
- Proto-Oceanic
- Subdivisions
- Admiralty Islands – Yapese St Matthias Islands Western Oceanic Temotu Central–Eastern Oceanic
- Glottolog
- ocea1241
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- Oceanic languages
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The Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages comprising some 450 languages spoken in Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages are estimated to have only two million native speakers. The largest individual Oceanic languages are Eastern Fijian with over 600,000 speakers, and Samoan with an estimated 400,000 speakers. The Gilbertese (Kiribati), Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Tolai (Gazelle Peninsula) languages each have over 100,000 speakers. The common ancestor which is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto-Oceanic (abbr. "POc").
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Temotu
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Central Pacific
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Kiribati
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Marshallese
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proto-language
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Rapa Nui
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Niuean
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Papuan
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Admiralty Islands
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Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
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Admiralty Islands
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St. Matthias
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Papua New Guinea
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Oceania
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Fiji
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Hawaii
Concept
Vanuatu
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Samoa
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Tonga
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Palau
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