Tuamotuan language

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Tuamotuan
Spoken in: French Polynesia 
Region: the Tuamotus, Tahiti
Total speakers: 14,400 (1987)
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
              Tuamotuan
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: pmt

The Tuamotuan language (or paumotu / pa’umotu) is a Tahitic language spoken by about 6700 people in the Tuamotu Islands and an additional 2000 in Tahiti.

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