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(Redirected from Admiralty Island languages) Oceanic language group
Admiralty Islands
Geographic
distribution
Admiralty Islands
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Proto-languageProto-Admiralty Islands (Proto-Admiralty)
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologadmi1239
  Admiralties and Yapese

The Admiralty Islands languages are a group of some thirty Oceanic languages spoken on the Admiralty Islands. They may include Yapese, which has proven difficult to classify.

Languages

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is:

As noted, Yapese and Nguluwan may be part of the Admiralty Islands languages as well.

References

  1. Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1128-4. OCLC 48929366.
  • Blust, Robert (2007). The prenasalised trills of Manus. In Language description, history, and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, ed. by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch, and Diana Eades, pp. 297–311. Creole Language Library vol. 30. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Bowern, Claire (2011). Sivisa Titan: Sketch grammar, texts, vocabulary based on material collected by P. Josef Meier and Po Minis. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 38. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
  • Hamel, Patricia J. (1994). A grammar and lexicon of Loniu, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics C-103. Canberra: The Australian National University. 275 pp.
  • Hamel, Patricia J. (1993). Serial verbs in Loniu and an evolving preposition. Oceanic Linguistics 32:111–132.
  • Ross, M. D. (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia. Pacific Linguistics C-98. Canberra: The Australian National University. 487 pp.
Admiralty Islands languages
Manus
Western
Intermediate
Eastern
Southeast
Western
Other
Austronesian languages
Formosan
Malayo-Polynesian
Western
Philippine
Greater Barito*
Greater North Borneo*
Celebic
South Sulawesi
Central
Eastern
SHWNG
Oceanic
Western
Southern
  • * indicates proposed status
  • ? indicates classification dispute
  • † indicates extinct status
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