Rapan language
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| Rapan | ||
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| Spoken in: | French Polynesia | |
| Total speakers: | 521 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Polynesian Nuclear East Central Rapan |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | - | |
| ISO 639-2: | - | |
| ISO 639-3: | ray | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Rapan is the language of Rapa, in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. It is classified as an East Central Polynesian language, along with the Marquesic and Tahitic languages.
The language is sufficiently different from the rest of the languages in this group as to warrant its own category within this classification, and is assumed to have developed in relative isolation for nearly 700 years.
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