Admiralty Islands languages

Admiralty Islands
Geographic distribution	Admiralty Islands
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands
Proto-language	Proto-Admiralty Islands (Proto-Admiralty)
Subdivisions	Eastern Admiralty Islands Western Admiralty Islands Yapese ?
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:^[1]

As noted, Yapese and Nguluwan may be part of the Admiralty Islands languages as well.

References

• 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.