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.

Languages

Its components are:

• Central Pacific languages

• Eastern Outer Islands languages

• Loyalty Islands languages

• Micronesian languages

• New Caledonian languages

• North and Central Vanuatu languages

References

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

See also

• Oceanic languages

• Remote Oceania