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
New Caledonia
surface form: Loyalty Islands

Mariana Islands
Society Islands
Solomon Islands
surface form: Solomon Islands archipelago

New Hebrides
surface form: Vanuatu archipelago

coastal regions of New Guinea
hasApproximateNumberOfLanguages 500
hundreds of languages
hasGlottologCode oceanic
hasISOClassification Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic
hasMajorSubbranch Central-Eastern Oceanic
Oceanic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Remote Oceanic

Western Oceanic
hasSubgroup Admiralty Islands languages
Central Pacific languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
Micronesian languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
surface form: North New Guinea languages

Papuan Tip languages
Southeast Solomonic languages
Southern Oceanic languages
Western Oceanic languages
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
includesLanguage Anejom
Chuukese language
surface form: Chuukese

Fijian
Hawaiian
Kiribati language
Māori
surface form: Maori

Marshallese
Motu
Paicî
Samoan
Tahitian language
surface form: Tahitian

Tolai people
surface form: Tolai

Tongan
Yapese
partOf Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian language family
reconstructedAncestor Proto-Oceanic language
surface form: 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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

El Greco (album) follows Oceanic
Ulithian languageFamily Oceanic
Patpatar languageGroup Oceanic
Roviana languageGroup Oceanic
Simbo languageBranch Oceanic
Toqabaqita languageBranch Oceanic
Oceanic hasMajorSubbranch Oceanic self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Remote Oceanic
Paama languageFamily Oceanic
Lau (Malaita) languageFamily Oceanic
Lemerig languageFamily Oceanic
Kandas languageBranch Oceanic
Mota languageSubfamily Oceanic
Western Oceanic branchOf Oceanic
Nengone languageSubfamily Oceanic