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  • proper noun A proposed common ancestor to the group of Oceanic languages.

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Examples

  • Proto-Oceanic (POC) * taRaq 'to hew, chop, cut into' is virtually ubiquitous as an initial verb in serial and compound causative constructions.

    Far Outliers 2009

  • In contrast to Austronesian languages almost everywhere else, the Oceanic languages on the north coast of the Papua New Guinea mainland show an unusual disinclination to make use of the morphological causative inherited from Proto-Oceanic and Proto-Austronesian.

    Far Outliers 2009

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