Oceanic
Let an agent explain the Oceanic language branch and its subgroups, relay classification, history and spread from linguistic sources, describe notable languages, and route to entries for subgroups and languages.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the Oceanic language branch and its subgroups, relay classification, history and spread from linguistic sources, describe notable languages, and route to entries for subgroups and languages.
The largest well-established branch of the Austronesian language family, comprising about 450 languages spoken across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia by about 2 million people, descended from Proto-Oceanic spoken around 1500 BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago, and subgrouped into Admiralty Islands, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern Oceanic including Remote Oceanic with Micronesian and Polynesian languages, and outliers such as Yapese; Oceanic languages include Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Maori and Tolai.
What it is for: Not applicable; a language family branch.
It can be explain the branch and subgroups; relay classification and history; describe notable languages; route to subgroups.
Distinguishing features
Proto-Oceanic ancestor
Lapita spread
Deep subgrouping
Polynesian and Micronesian members
What it looks like
Not a visible object; languages of the Pacific.
Physical character
languages: about 450 count
speakers: about 2 million
Proto-Oceanic: about 1500 BCE date - Lapita association
How it is recognised
Austronesian branch of the Pacific
Admiralty, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern and Remote Oceanic; Yapese
Papuan languages are unrelated; western Austronesian languages such as Malay are outside the branch
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
descends from - reconstructed ancestor
includes - as a subgroup
spread with - across the Pacific
In practice
Families and kinds
Admiralty Islands languages
Western Oceanic linkage including North New Guinea, Papuan Tip and Meso-Melanesian
Temotu languages
Central-Eastern Oceanic including Southeast Solomonic and Remote Oceanic
Remote Oceanic including Micronesian, Central Pacific and Polynesian languages
Yapese and other debated members
Identifiers
Glottolog ocea1241 Oceanic
Standards and regulation
ISO 639 codes for member languages
National language policies in Pacific states
Endangered language documentation programmes
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting debated subgroupings as settled
Confusing Oceanic with all Pacific languages
Stale speaker figures
Also called
+97
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Oceanic is.
Linguistics.
Definition
Definition and place in Austronesian.
Definition
Definition.
- What is the Oceanic branch, and how does it fit within Austronesian? definition
- Is the question about Oceanic languages, Papuan languages or Austronesian broadly? boundary
Subgroups
Subgroups.
Subgroups
Subgroups.
- What are the Admiralty, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern and Remote Oceanic subgroups, and where does Yapese fit? definition
- Which entry fits the specific subgroup? action
History History and spread.
Attribution.
Proto-Oceanic
Proto-Oceanic.
Proto-Oceanic
Proto-Oceanic.
- What has been reconstructed of Proto-Oceanic, and how is it linked to the Lapita culture? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Spread
Spread across the Pacific.
Spread
Spread.
- How did Oceanic languages spread to Micronesia and Polynesia, as linguists and archaeologists describe? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Languages Languages.
Sources.
Notable
Notable languages.
Notable
Notable.
- What are Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Maori, Tolai and other major Oceanic languages? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific language? action
Features
Shared features.
Features
Features.
- What grammatical and phonological features characterise Oceanic languages? provenance
- Which entry fits Oceanic grammar? action
Context Vitality and study.
Context.
Vitality
Endangerment and revival.
Vitality
Vitality.
- Which Oceanic languages are endangered, and what revitalisation exists? provenance
- Which entry fits language revitalisation? action
Study
Scholarship.
Study
Study.
- How has Oceanic linguistics developed, from Dempwolff to the Oceanic Lexicon Project? provenance
- Which entry fits Austronesian linguistics? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should Polynesian and Micronesian languages be the primary linked entries?
- How should linguistic databases be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming subgroups and one language; should they be split off?