Proto-Western Oceanic

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Proto-Western Oceanic is the reconstructed ancestral language from which the Western Oceanic branch of the Oceanic (Austronesian) languages is believed to have descended.

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Label Occurrences
Proto-Western Oceanic canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian proto-language
proto-language
reconstructed language
ancestorOf Admiralty Islands languages NERFINISHED
Meso-Melanesian languages NERFINISHED
North New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
Papuan Tip languages NERFINISHED
Western Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudy Austronesian linguistics
Oceanic linguistics NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian NERFINISHED
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Proto-Oceanic NERFINISHED
hasDescendant Bel language NERFINISHED
Kove language NERFINISHED
Kove–Nakanai languages NERFINISHED
Kuanua language NERFINISHED
Lihir language NERFINISHED
Motu language NERFINISHED
Nakanai language NERFINISHED
Ngero–Vitiaz languages NERFINISHED
Siar-Lak language NERFINISHED
Sursurunga language NERFINISHED
Tolai language NERFINISHED
Western Oceanic linkage NERFINISHED
hasFeature Austronesian alignment patterns (reconstructed)
complex verbal morphology (reconstructed)
numeral classifiers (reconstructed)
possessive constructions typical of Oceanic languages (reconstructed)
hasLexicon basic vocabulary reconstructed from Western Oceanic languages
hasPhonology reconstructed consonant inventory
reconstructed vowel system
hasTimePeriod Holocene (prehistory) NERFINISHED
late Proto-Oceanic period
influenced reconstruction of lower-level Western Oceanic proto-languages
partOf Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages
reconstructedBy comparative method
historical linguistics
spokenIn Bismarck Archipelago (reconstructed area) NERFINISHED
Papuan Tip region (reconstructed area) NERFINISHED
northern coastal New Guinea region (reconstructed area)
status reconstructed
unattested
studiedIn comparative studies of Western Oceanic languages
subclassOf Oceanic proto-language
writingSystem none

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Western Oceanic hasProtoLanguage Proto-Western Oceanic