A family of some 200 Remote Oceanic languages has traditionally been posited as a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. However, it was abandoned by Lynch, Ross, & Crowley in 2002, as no defining features of the family could be found.
Languages Its components are:
Central Pacific languages Eastern Outer Islands languages Loyalty Islands languages Micronesian languages New Caledonian languages North and Central Vanuatu languages
References Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
See also Oceanic languages Remote Oceania