''Oceanic Linguistics'' is a biannual

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covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of

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, including the

indigenous Australian languages The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

, the

Papuan languages The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

, and the languages of the Austronesian (or

Malayo-Polynesian The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast ...

) family. Monographs on the same languages are published as'' Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications''.

History

The journal was established in 1962 by George W. Grace (

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, later

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). It has been published by the

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since 1966 (vol. 5). In 1992, the editorship passed to

Byron W. Bender Byron W. Bender (August 14, 1929 – January 4, 2020) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii, University of Hawaii specializing in Micronesian languages, primarily Marshallese language, Marshallese, and Oceanic languages m ...

(University of Hawaii) and in 2007 it passed to John Lynch (

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). In 2019, he was succeeded by Daniel Kaufman, Yuko Otsuka, and Antoinette Schapper. The journal's first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on

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. Back volumes up to three years behind the current volumes of both the journal and the monograph series are available on

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References

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