Mangarevan language
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Mangarevan Rero Magareva |
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Spoken in: | French Polynesia | |
Region: | Mangareva (Gambier Islands) | |
Total speakers: | ~1,000 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Central Eastern Marquesic Mangarevan |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | mrv | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Mangarevan is the East Central Polynesian language spoken in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. It is a member of the Marquesic subgroup, and as such is closely related to Hawaiian and to the languages of the Marquesas Islands.