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Melanesian languages
In linguistics,
Melanesian
is an obsolete term referring to the
Austronesian languages
of
Melanesia
: that is, the
Oceanic
,
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
, or
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
languages apart from
Polynesian
and
Micronesian
. A typical classification of the Austronesian languages ca. 1970 would divide them into something like the following branches:
Formosan languages
(Northern)
Western Malayo-Polynesian
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Melanesian languages
(including
Fijian
)
Micronesian languages
Polynesian languages
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