Proto-Central Pacific language

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 (ancestral to Rotuman and western Fijian dialects) and an eastern dialect (ancestral to eastern Fijian dialects and Proto-Polynesian). Later, the dialects that remained in Fiji converged back, eventually becoming more similar, leading to the present-day Fijian language.