Proto-Central Pacific language
Proto-Central Pacific is the reconstructed ancestor of the Central Pacific languages. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages.
It was first proposed by George W. Grace in 1959, who also named the subgroup in 1967. It was reconstructed by C.F. Hockett in 1976.
Descendants
Proto-Central Pacific, originally spoken by Lapita settlers in Fiji three millennia ago, separated into a dialect network, consisting of what would become a western dialect and an eastern dialect. Later, the dialects that remained in Fiji converged back, eventually becoming more similar, leading to the present-day Fijian language.Phonology
The phonology of Proto-Central Pacific, according to Geraghty, are:The orthography used is similar to that of Fijian.