Micronesian Languages

The Micronesian languages are a family of about twenty Oceanic languages spoken across the small islands of Micronesia in the western Pacific, including Chuukese, Pohnpeian, Marshallese, Kiribati and their relatives, forming one of the more securely established low level subgroups within the larger Oceanic branch of Austronesian. This group holds every New Guinea and Pacific Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Micronesian or as a named language or branch within the Micronesian family, kept separate from the wider Austronesian (Oceanic) Languages group because the report's own proposed scheme calls out Micronesian as its own group rather than folding it into the larger Oceanic bucket.