Southern Oceanic languages

Southern Oceanic
Geographic distribution	Vanuatu, New Caledonia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central–Eastern Southern Oceanic
Proto-language	Proto-Southern Oceanic
Subdivisions	North-Central Vanuatu South Vanuatu New Caledonian
Glottolog	None
Southern Oceanic

The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by John Lynch in 1995 and supported by later studies. It appears to be a linkage rather than a language family with a clearly defined internal nested structure.