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Remote Oceanic languages

group of languages

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3508197 ↗
Source-derived summary

A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.

Languages

Its components are:

Central Pacific languages

Eastern Outer Islands languages

Loyalty Islands languages

Micronesian languages

New Caledonian languages

North and Central Vanuatu languages

References

Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.

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“Remote Oceanic languages” enters the record as group of languages. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Remote, Oceanic and languages can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Remote, Oceanic and languages.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3508197. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Remote Oceanic languages” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.