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Nativelanguages ofOceania fall into three major geographic groups:

• The largeAustronesianlanguage family, with such languages asMalay (Indonesian),Tagalog (Filipino), andPolynesian languages such asMāori andHawaiian
• The variousAboriginal Australian language families, including the largePama–Nyungan family
• The variousPapuan language families ofNew Guinea and neighbouring islands, including the largeTrans–New Guinea family

Contact between Austronesian and Papuan resulted in several instances inmixed languages such asMaisin.

Non-indigenous languages include:

• English inAustralia,Hawaii,New Zealand, and other territories
• French inFrench Polynesia,New Caledonia,Vanuatu, andWallis and Futuna
• Hindi inFiji
• Japanese inPalau
• Spanish inEaster Island,Micronesia^[1] andGuam^[2]

There are alsocreoles formed from the interaction of Malay or the colonial languages with indigenous languages, such asTok Pisin,Bislama,Pijin, variousMalay trade and creole languages,Samoan Plantation Pidgin,Hawaiian Pidgin,Norfuk,Pitkern,^[3] andUnserdeutsch

Finally, immigrants brought their own languages, such asMandarin,Italian,Arabic,Cantonese,Greek and others inAustralia,^[4] orFiji Hindi inFiji.

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