Proto-Oceanic Language
Proto-Oceanic (abbr. POc) is a protolanguage that language comparatists — particularly after Otto Dempwolff's works — have proposed as the probable common ancestor to the group of Oceanic languages. Proto-Oceanic is itself an Austronesian language, and therefore a descendant of Proto-Austronesian (PAN), the common ancestor of the Austronesian languages.
Proto-Oceanic was probably spoken about 4200 years ago, in the Bismarck Archipelago, east of Papua New Guinea. Archaeologists and linguists currently agree that the POc-speaking community more or less coincides with the Lapita archaeological culture.
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