Southern Oceanic Languages (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Southern Oceanic languages are a branch of Oceanic proposed by Lynch, Ross, and Crowley in 2002 and supported by later analysis.A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database supports the following classification. Each node is fully supported. 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.