Penrhyn language

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Penrhyn
Spoken in: Cook Islands 
Region: Penrhyn Island, Northern Cook Islands
Total speakers: 600 (1981 Wurm and Hattori)
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian(MP)
  Central-Eastern MP
   Eastern MP
    Oceanic
     Central-Eastern Oceanic
      Remote Oceanic
       Central Pacific
        East Fijian-Polynesian
         Polynesian
          Nuclear Polynesian
           Eastern Polynesian
            Central E. Polynesian
             Tahitic
              Penrhyn
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: pnh

Penrhyn is a Polynesian language spoken by about 600 people on Penrhyn Island and other islands of the Cook Islands. It is considered to be an endangered language.

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