Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the triangle Polynesia (from Greek, poly = many and nesos = island) is a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. ... Melanesia (from Greek black islands) is a region extending from the western side of East Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... The Austronesian languages are a language family 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. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... The family of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages is a subgroup of the Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...
The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Micronesia, Polynesia and most of Melanesia. The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the triangle Polynesia (from Greek, poly = many and nesos = island) is a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. ... Melanesia (from Greek black islands) is a region extending from the western side of East Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. ...
Despite covering such a vast area, Oceanic languages are spoken by less than two million people. The largest individual Oceanic language is probably Fijian, with some 300,000 speakers. Samoan, Tolai, Kiribati and Tongan all have over 100,000 speakers.
The Oceaniclanguages are members of the Austronesianlanguage family, a language family which, until the advent of European exploration and settlement of the 'New World', had spread out across a considerably larger proportion of the earth than had any other language family.
Austronesianlanguages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
Towards a classification of the Oceaniclanguages of Bougainville and the western Solomons.
The languages of Australia (Aboriginal languages) and most of New Guinea (Papuan languages), however, are not part of this family.
The 237 Western Oceaniclanguages are spoken in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia.
In general, the Austronesianlanguages use affixes (suffixes, infixes, prefixes) attached to base words to modify the meaning or to indicate the function of the word in the sentence.
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