Western Oceanic | |
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Geographic distribution |
Western Pacific |
Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
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Subdivisions |
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Glottolog | west2818 |
Western Oceanic
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The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988).
The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:
The center of dispersal was evidently near the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of New Britain.