The North-Central Vanuatu languages are a
linkage of
Oceanic languages spoken in
Vanuatu and
New Caledonia. It was proposed by Clark (2009), who reconstructed the proto-language of the entire group, viewed here as an early, mutually-intelligible chain of dialects.[1] but this is not accepted by
Lynch (2018).[2]
^Tryon, Darrell. 2010. The languages of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. In
John Bowden and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross (eds.), A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley, 283–290. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.