Proto-Oceanic language

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Table 54: Austronesian Family Tree (Theory 1)

Classification of the Oceanic Languages

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Proto-Oceanic language

Also known as: Proto-Melanesian language, Ur-Melanesian language, Urmelanesisch language

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distribution

In Austronesian languages: Major subgroups
…which is known today as Proto-Oceanic. The Oceanic hypothesis maintains that all Austronesian languages east of a line that runs through Indonesian New Guinea at approximately 138° E longitude—except for Palauan and Chamorro of western Micronesia—are descended from a single protolanguage spoken many generations after the initial breakup of Proto-Austronesian…
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phonological and grammatical features

In Austronesian languages: Grammar
Proto-Oceanic diverged widely from this type of syntax. It appears to have been SVO, and most of the focus morphology of Proto-Austronesian was either lost or reinterpreted as nominalizing morphology. A major debate that has continued for three decades concerns the classification of various of…
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