Proto-Oceanic language
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"POc" redirects here. For other POC abbreviations, see POC (disambiguation).
Proto-Oceanic (abbr. POc) is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Oceanic is a descendant of the Proto-Austronesian language (PAN), the common ancestor of the Austronesian languages.
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Reconstruction of | Oceanic languages |
Region | Bismarck Archipelago |
Era | ca. late 3rd millennium BCE |
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Proto-Oceanic was probably spoken around the late 3rd millennium BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago, east of Papua New Guinea.[1] Archaeologists and linguists currently agree that its community more or less coincides with the Lapita culture.