Futunic languages

Futunic
Geographic distribution:	Polynesia
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central Pacific Polynesian Futunic
Subdivisions:	—

The Futunic languages are a poorly supported group of Polynesian languages spoken on Polynesian outliers in southeast Melanesia.

The name comes from two islands called Futuna, both of which host languages included in the family. East Futunan is the only language in the group which is not considered an outlier, but resides within geographic Polynesia. The languages of other Polynesian outliers, in the northern Solomons, Papua New Guinea, and Micronesia, are mostly placed in the Ellicean branch of Polynesian.

Languages

A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database supports a Futunic group with only a 70% probability, though core Futunic (excluding West Uvean and Emea) is somewhat more probably, at 80%.

? Futunic	Emae (on Emae in Vanuatu) West Uvean or Faga Uvea (on Ouvéa off New Caledonia) ? Mele-Fila (in Mele, southern Éfaté island in Vanuatu) ? Pileni (and Taumako; on the Reef Islands in the Solomons) Futuna-Aniwan or West Futunan (on Futuna and Aniwa in Vanuatu)

External links

• Family tree of Polynesian languages, including bibliographies