Langenesis

Austronesian family

Proto-Oceanic

c. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Oceanic (c. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE) is a reconstructed Austronesian language. It has 10 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Proto-Oceanic.

See Proto-Oceanic on the interactive map

Ancestor of the ~450 Oceanic languages, associated with the Lapita culture in the Bismarck Archipelago (~1350 BCE). The intermediate Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian stage is not tracked.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Proto-Oceanicc. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 9

Also descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.

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