High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oceanic Linguistics is an international academic journal devoted to the study of the thousand-odd indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages. Monographs on the same languages are published as Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications (OLSP).