The Western Oceanic languages are a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Malcolm Ross in 1988. They make up a majority of the Austronesian languages spoken in New Guinea.
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Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor Proto-Language StatusProto-language named: Proto-Western Oceanic 2 Compare
Number of Languages In the Other Atlases
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Source Glottolog
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1. Glottolog: Western Oceanic linkage (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 237
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Western Oceanic languages
Infobox, region
Western Pacific
Infobox, protoname
Proto-Western Oceanic
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Western Oceanic
View the SourceWikidata: Western Oceanic languages
Wikidata Q2701282, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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