IMPORTANCE AND NATURE OF THE OCEANIC LANGUAGES, 59 
I,—PRINCIPAL GROUPS: 
A. Australian...1. Languages of Australia 
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. Tasmanian 
Be Papuan: ....... 1. Languages of the Black Frizzly-haired natives 
of New Guinea. 
C. Melanesian...1. Southern—South New Hebrides, Loyalty 
Islands ; New Caledonia. 
. Central—Northern New Hebrides, Banks 
Islands, and Fiji. 
3. Northern—Languages of the Southern Solo- 
bo 
mon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, and 
South Eastern New Guinea (Port Moresby, 
South Cape etc.) 
D. Indonesian...1. Madagascar. 
2. Languages of Sumatra, Java, and Malay. 
3. Languages of Borneo and Celebes, and islands 
to the south. 
4, The languages of the Philippine Islands and 
Formosa. 
EK. Polynesian ...The languages of the Eastern Pacific—Samoan, 
Maori, Tonga, Hawaii, etc. 
Resulting from the contact of these principal groups are found 
mixed languages. These may be arranged thus -— 
II.—Sus-Grovups. 
a. Indo-Australian (?)—The languages of the Andaman and 
Nicobar Islands. 
Indo-Papuan—The languages of Ternate, Tidor, and islands 
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and shores of Western New Guinea. 
c. Papuo-Australian—The languages of Torres Straits. 
d. Melano-Papuan—Languages of the Louisiade Archipelago, and 
portions of Hastern New Guinea. 
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. Indo-Polynesian (or Micronesian)—Languages of the Caroline 
Islands, Marshall and Gilbert Islands. 
f- Melano-Polynesian—Languages of Aniwa and Futuna, New 
Hebrides, and Rotuma. 
