Oceanic

E150106

Oceanic is a major branch of the Austronesian language family comprising hundreds of languages spoken across the Pacific islands, including much of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Oceanic canonical 23
Remote Oceanic 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Austronesian languages
language subgroup
geographicDistribution Bismarck Archipelago
Caroline Islands
Cook Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Loyalty Islands
linked to: New Caledonia

Mariana Islands
Society Islands
Solomon Islands archipelago
linked to: Solomon Islands

Vanuatu archipelago
linked to: New Hebrides

coastal regions of New Guinea
hasApproximateNumberOfLanguages 500
hundreds of languages
hasGlottologCode oceanic
hasISOClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic
hasMajorSubbranch Central-Eastern Oceanic
Remote Oceanic
linked to: Oceanic

Western Oceanic
hasSubgroup Admiralty Islands languages
Central Pacific languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
Micronesian languages
North New Guinea languages
Papuan Tip languages
Southeast Solomonic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
Western Oceanic languages
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
includesLanguage Anejom
Chuukese
linked to: Chuukese language

Fijian
Hawaiian
Kiribati language
Maori
linked to: Māori

Marshallese
Motu
Paicî
Samoan
Tahitian
linked to: Tahitian language

Tolai
linked to: Tolai people

Tongan
Yapese
partOf Austronesian language family
reconstructedAncestor Proto-Oceanic
spokenInCountry Cook Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Wallis and Futuna
spokenInRegion Melanesia
Micronesia
Pacific Islands
Polynesia
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
typologicalFeature inclusive-exclusive first person plural distinction
possessive classifiers in many languages
predominantly SVO word order
rich verbal morphology
use of prepositions rather than postpositions

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