Western Oceanic
Geographic distribution	WesternPacific
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic
Proto-language	Proto-Western Oceanic
Subdivisions	North New Guinea linkage Meso-Melanesian linkage Papuan Tip linkage
Language codes
Glottolog	west2818
Western Oceanic

TheWestern Oceanic languages is alinkage ofOceanic languages, proposed and studied byRoss (1988). They make up a majority of the Austronesian languages spoken inNew Guinea.

The West Oceanic linkage is made up of three sub-linkages:^[1]

• North New Guinea linkage
• Meso-Melanesian linkage
• Papuan Tip linkage

The center of dispersal was evidently^{[citation needed]}near theWillaumez Peninsula on the north coast ofNew Britain.

• Lynch, John;Ross, Malcolm;Crowley, Terry (2002).The Oceanic Languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.ISBN 9780700711284.OCLC 48929366.
• Ross, Malcolm D. (1988).Proto Oceanic and theAustronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

• Western Oceanic languages
• Oceanic languages

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