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Encyclopedia > Central Pacific languages
Central Pacific Languages
Spoken in: The Central Pacific
Genetic
classification:		 Austronesian

 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
   Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
    Oceanic
     Central-Eastern Oceanic
      Remote Oceanic
       Central Pacific
For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages. ... The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, conatining approximately 450 languages. ... The family of Central-Eastern Oceanic languages is a subgroup of the Oceanic languages. ...

The family of Central Pacific languages is a subgroup of the Remote Oceanic languages.


Classification

  • East Fijian-Polynesian languages
  • West Fijian-Rotuman languages
The Polynesian languages are a group of related languages spoken in the region known as Polynesia. ... Rotuman, also referred to as Rotuna or Rutuman, is a language spoken on Rotuma island. ...

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Austronesian Languages - ninemsn Encarta (645 words)
The languages of Australia (Aboriginal languages) and most of New Guinea (Papuan languages), however, are not part of this family.
The 237 Western Oceanic languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia.
In general, the Austronesian languages use affixes (suffixes, infixes, prefixes) attached to base words to modify the meaning or to indicate the function of the word in the sentence.
Languages & Writing Systems - Crystalinks (2691 words)
Language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, communicate.
Languages of the Finno-Ugric family, such as languages of the Sami (Lapp) and Baltic-Finno groups (e.g., Sami, Finnish, and Livonian), are spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
The languages of North Asia are those spoken from the Arctic Ocean on the north to South Asia and China on the south and from the Caspian Sea and Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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