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Proto-Oceanic (abbr. POc) is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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The Gilbertese (Kiribati), Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Tolai (Gazelle Peninsula) languages each have over 100,000 speakers. The common ancestor which is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto-Oceanic (abbr. "POc").
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According to Jackson (1983, 1986) the languages group as follows: The family appears to have originated in the east, likely on Kosrae, and spread westwards. Kosrae appears to have been settled from the south, in the region of Malaita (Solomon Islands) or in northern Vanuatu. Kevin Hughes (2020) revises Jackson's classification, especially with rega...
John Lynch (2003) tentatively proposes that the Micronesian languages may form a subclade within the Southern Oceanic languages, and specifically a sister clade to the Loyalty Islands languageswithin the latter family. He notes the following features that the Micronesian and Loyalties languages share in common, among other features: 1. Palatalized ...
Jackson, Frederick (1986), "On determining the external relationships of the Micronesian languages", in Paul Geraghty; Lois Carrington; Stephen A. Wurm (eds.), FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth Inte...Hughes, Kevin (2020). The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Nauruan: Towards a Definitive Classification of an Understudied Micronesian Language(PhD dissertation). City University of New York.know of Proto-Oceanic culture and society? What circumstances led, first to the formation, and second, to the disintegration of the Proto-Oceanic language community? Where, when, and why did Oceanic diverge from other branches of Austronesian? Where, when, and why did Proto-Oceanic itself break up?
Title: The lexicon of Proto Oceanic. The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. Volume 5 – People: body and mind / Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond ISBN: 9781922185327 (ebook) Series: Asia-Pacific Linguistics; A-PL 28. Subjects: Proto-Oceanic language. Ethnology – Oceania. Oceania – Social life and customs.
Aug 29, 2024 · 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 itself.
Proto-Oceanic (POc) is the ancestor of some 450 Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Darrell Tryon has outlined in his paper for this volume the origins and position of the Oceanic subgroup within the wider Austronesian language family.
