Penrhyn language
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Penrhyn | ||
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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 |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | pnh | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
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.