Admiralty Islands languages
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| Admiralty Islands | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Admiralty Islands |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
|
| Proto-language | Proto-Admiralty Islands (Proto-Admiralty) |
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | admi1239 |
 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:
- Admiralty Islands languages
- Eastern
- Western
- Northern Kaniet and Southern Kaniet (†)
- Seimat
- Wuvulu-Aua (as two languages)
As noted, Yapese and Nguluwan may be part of the Admiralty Islands languages as well.
References
- ^ 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.