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