#melanesian_languages

Melanesian languages

Obsolete term for Austronesian languages of Melanesia

In linguistics, Melanesian is an obsolete term referring to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages apart from Polynesian and Micronesian. A typical classification of the Austronesian languages ca. 1970 would divide them into something like the following branches:Formosan languages (Northern) Western Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Melanesian languages Micronesian languages Polynesian languages

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