The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia . It was proposed by John Lynch in 1995 and supported by later studies. It appears to be a linkage rather than a language family with a clearly defined internal nested structure.
3-671: Clark (2009) groups the North Vanuatu and Central Vanuatu languages together into a North-Central Vanuatu (NCV) group and also reconstructs Proto-North-Central Vanuatu, but this is not accepted by Lynch (2018). In addition to the Temotu languages and the Northwest Solomonic languages of the western Solomon Islands , Geraghty (2017) notes that many Southern Oceanic languages are often lexically and typologically aberrant, likely with Papuan substrata - particularly
6-509: Is a linkage , while the others form genetic subgroups. Lynch (1995) tentatively grouped the languages as follows: The non-nuclear branches are subsumed under Northern Vanuatu. Ross, Pawley, & Osmond (2016) propose the following internal classification for Southern Oceanic. North Vanuatu languages Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
9-613: The Espiritu Santo , Malakula , South Vanuatu , and New Caledonian languages, and perhaps also some Central Vanuatu languages of Ambrym and Efate . Nevertheless, languages in the eastern Solomon Islands, including Guadalcanal , Malaita , Makira , and a scattering of North Vanuatu languages including Mota , Raga , and Tamambo , are much more conservative. Following Clark (2009) and Glottolog 4.0, three major groups can be delineated, which are North-Central Vanuatu , South Vanuatu , and New Caledonian . The first group
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