The over 200 Central–Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic language family within the Austronesian languages.
| Central–Eastern Oceanic | |
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| Geographic distribution | The Pacific |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | None |
The branches of CE Oceanic Dark red = Southeast Solomons Blue = Southern Oceanic Pink = Micronesian Ocher = Fijian-Polynesian (not shown: Rapa Nui) The black oval between red and blue is the Temotu languages. | |
Traditional classifications have posited a Remote Oceanic branch within this family, but this was abandoned in Lynch et al. (2002), as no defining features could be found for such a group of languages.
In 2007 Ross & Næss moved the Utupua-Vanikoro languages from Central-Eastern to the newly established Temotu branch of Oceanic.
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