Remote Oceanic languages

Remote Oceanic
(proposed)
Geographic distribution	Oceania, Polynesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Eastern Malayo-Polynesian? Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic
Subdivisions	Central Pacific Eastern Outer Islands Loyalty Islands Micronesian New Caledonian North and Central Vanuatu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

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:

• Central Pacific languages
• Eastern Outer Islands languages
• Loyalty Islands languages
• Micronesian languages
• New Caledonian languages
• North and Central Vanuatu languages

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

• Oceanic languages
• Remote Oceania