Rapan language

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Rapan
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	-
ISO 639-2:	-
ISO 639-3:	ray
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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.