A tree diagram, also from Lynch’s book, traces Oceanic languages to an ancestral Proto Austronesian language. Apart from Belauan (Palauan) and CHamoru (Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroups), all other Micronesian languages are part of the Oceanic group
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