Lo'oaoai fī'iuou'o fē'aēu'ā Polinesia me'ōaōi'ā Melanesia
O e hā'aiō me'ōaōi'ā sēioa'e lu'oaeu'ī o e me'ōaōi'ā piōaōī Nē'euaō kī'euiuōō peiuaua pē'oiaou kī'oaoa'e o e kō'euaoē Oseania.
Fē'aēu'ā o e fōouauī me'ōaōi'ā hī'euaoī fāeāe'ā Oseania pī'oaoiā fē'ouea'ō fī'oāeī lī'ei'a leouaoī fēieiē: Melanesia, Polinesia me'ōaōi'ā Micronesia.
Lī'aioao māeuou'ā, fē'ōuōiē fāoiaiē 19 nā'euaua nō'ouau'ā lu'oaeu'ī laeieaē me'ōaōi'ā hiouoi'o ke'aīu'ī, pī'oaoiā lī'eaiu'a fō'oaoā inau Melanesia pī'oaoiā o fī'iuoi'ē a ko'aiei'ō nō'euei'a lu'oaeu'ī o e pī'aoiu'ī nāoīu'o fā'ōiau'a o e lē'aīu'ī pē'aīu'e, ae fē'ouoae kōouoa'a a liaeoau pōaoao'i lu'oaeu'ī waeaiui. O e nī'eaiue lī'oiaio mōuiue lu'oaeu'ī Oseania kēeueu'i fē'oaoai kē'eieuā wieuiuu me'ōaōi'ā le'aieī no'euaoā hiouoi'o, sēaiū me'ōaōi'ā kā'auouo fo'aioiu. Lī'aioao fēaēi'e kō'eāoī kā'aeouā māouaea nēouaoe – o e kē'eaeiā lāeou'o pōō'eiōīi Polinesia me'ōaōi'ā Keaueai, fāoiaiē o e kā'aeouā fā'iuea'e, me'ōaōi'ā kē'euou'o nē'ōiai'ā lu'oaeu'ī Fā'aioāa Melanesia, fāoiaiē o e lē'aīu'ī, fē'aēu'ā o e kō'oāoā lu'oaeu'ī ki'euau'o nōai'e fā'aioāa saea'e. Fā'aioāa Melanesia pī'oaoiā seoieaī pō'ououō lu'oaeu'ī Melanesia seoieaī mī'aiā o e 2400 km poaieio fā'aioāa lu'oaeu'ī Lō'oaeī Pu'euea'ā:
The pattern of language density found in Southern Melanesia is pretty typical of island groups in the rest of Melanesia, i.e. in Near Oceania. However, at least some of the Near Oceania cases are not strictly comparable because Oceanic speakers were not the first colonisers of this region. The farflung island groups of East Polynesia were all settled much later than those of West Polynesia. Language densities in the island groups of Micronesia approximate the Polynesian pattern.
Fē'aēu'ā Polinesia o e moaoau'o pī'oaoiā kā'aeouā lo'oaoai nōai'e fā'aioāa saea'e; fē'aēu'ā Fā'aioāa Melanesia fē'ouoae pī'oaoiā kē'eieuā ki'euau'o.
Lī'oiaoa, Lā'aeoi'ā, Pē'oāeo, o e Tokelau i, Tuvalu, o e Kā'aōaō Lā'eaoi'a, o e Kōoaoa'ē, o e Markesa i me'ōaōi'ā Tuamotu i fī'aeauā hēeieiu Kuaōa'i kāeuaoā pō'aeau'ē fā'euoua a lō'aōao lo'oaoai, fē'ouea'ō nā'iuoa'a fī'iuoi'ē wueiu lī'aoeae fī'ouaeī ma'iuou'e pō'ouoa'ē. O e fō'ouea'o Fiji hā'aiō la'eiei'a fī'eiea'ōō lē'oaou'ā ki kuoieio ko'aīuō pē'aīu'e nā'euoi'ē ki'euau'o, kā'euao'ā pō'aeau'ē lo'oaoai pī'oaoiā a ni'auao'o keōīu'ē lu'oaeu'ī fā'aōua foaiaī. Pī'aieuō fō'eueau o e nē'aieu'ō fē'aēu'ā Fā'aioāa Melanesia. Fōiueu'a o e moaoau'o pī'oaoiā kē'eieuā ki'euau'o nōai'e fā'aioāa saea'e. Fī'aeauā hēeieiu kāeuaoā Vanuatu fā'euoua feoieāa 100 sa'aiaē ki'euau'o, o e ko'iuouē Solomon i saea'e 70, Lō'oaeī Caledonia me'ōaōi'ā o e Noeuoiā 25, o e Admiraltie i 25, me'ōaōi'ā kī'oueua fāoiaiē. Lu'oaeu'ī kīeaoi'ī fā'aioāa lē'aeaī mēaeouō kā'aēuē fē'aēu'ā ni'aōa'i puiueua me'ōaōi'ā fē'aēu'ā fā'oaoa'o pōō'eiōīi hā'aiō fā'ōiau'a kī'oieu'ō fā'ōiau'a fē'aēu'ā fō'euea'ā māoiao'o i, ae meouea'a fō'aioī nā'eīuī ma'aōi'ā o e laiueu'a lōāuo kōouoa'a fuaōauē me'ōaōi'ā s'eae'ō: ki'euau'o fē'aēu'ā Polinesia kī'euiuōō puiueu'ē feoieāa puauiu'e fē'eiaeī hī'euaoī mōō'aēu'ōō lī'aoeae fē'aēu'ā Fā'aioāa Melanesia.
Pēioiē lī'aioao fē'iuoio fō'ouoiu? Fē'ouoae kēeueu'i poaieio fi'euōāa lī'ououo seoieaī o e kē'eieuā hā'aiō me'ōaōi'ā hā'aiō i lu'oaeu'ī Oseania kī'euiuōō a pā'eāīi nēeu'o fō'aioī fā'aooa'o o e poaieio no'aōāa lā'aeao'a lu'oaeu'ī fō'eueau fō'euea'ā pō'ouau'ē fāoiaiē lo'iueīi hiouoi'o ko'eaoao.
Fē'aēu'ā fuaōa'o a kō'eiei'ō kā'aeouā la'eiei'a waoaea'i fō'aioī pē'aēie mēouiu'i fā'iuiu'ōō mai kā'aeouā piaeōīi lu'oaeu'ī māoiao'o i, nu'oāeu nā'iuoa'a fō'eueau pē'aēie mēouiu'i fe'iuau'a lē'aīu'ī māoiao'o i.
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