Remote Oceanic | |
Acceptance: | proposed |
Region: | Oceania, Polynesia |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Central–Eastern |
Fam4: | Eastern Malayo-Polynesian? |
Fam5: | Oceanic |
Fam6: | Central-Eastern Oceanic |
Child1: | Central Pacific |
Child2: | Eastern Outer Islands |
Child3: | Loyalty Islands |
Child4: | Micronesian |
Child5: | New Caledonian |
Child6: | North and Central Vanuatu |
Glotto: | none |
Map: | CE Oceanic.svg |
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.
Its components are: