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A personal of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages occurs as subgroup of the Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages. It consists of complete Five hundred languages.

Components

Oceanic languages Admiralty Islands languages Central-Eastern Oceanic languages St.Matthias languages Western Oceanic languages Yapese (possibly one of a Mitt languages) South Halmahera-West New Guinea languages South Halmahera languages West New Guinea languages

Book Review of "Tinrin Grammar"
Review of the Tinrin grammar written by Midori Osumi with detailed outline of the grammar, examples and bibliography at the end of the review.

Phonetics of Ndumbea
Discussion of the phonetic properties of Ndumbea, an Eastern-Polynesian language spoken in the southernmost part of New Caledonia.

English Roviana Word List
Collection of words gathered by Peter Ninnes along with a bibliographic reference for the definitive printed dictionary for Roviana.

Demanding Polynesian Languages in the Courts
News article about using Polynesian languages in French Polynesian courts.

Leiataua or Lei'ataua: Ali'i Lineage
A discourse by Peter Leiataua AhChing on the unity of Polynesian languages.

Holle Lists: Vocabularies in Languages of Indonesia, Vol.5/1: Irian Jaya: Austronesian Languages; Papuan Languages, Digul Area
Full text of the book by W. A. L. Stokhof on Austronesian and Papuan languages of Irian Jaya.

Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists
Full text of the book edited by C. L. Voorhoeve on Austronesian and Papuan languages.

Peta Bahasa - Papua - Language Maps
Language maps of Irian Jaya from Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University.

Polynesian Languages and Literature Group
POLLInet includes texts in Polynesian languages, general information about these languages, and a mailing list.

Annotated Bibliography of Vanuatu Languages
Comprehensive bibliography of research on Vanuatu languages organized by island and region with maps and language statistics.


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