Mangareva language
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| Mangareva | |
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| Native to | French Polynesia |
| Region | Gambier Islands, Mangareva Island |
Native speakers | 600 (2011 census)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mrv |
Mangareva, also known as the Mangarevan language, is a Polynesian language spoken in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia by about 1600 people on the islands of Gambier and Mangareva. Speakers also have some bilingualism in Tahitian, in which there is a 50-68% lexical similarity. It is a member of the Marquesic subgroup, and as such is closely related to Hawaiian and to the languages of the Marquesas Islands.
References
- ↑ Mangareva reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
External links
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Mangareva language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- A dictionary of Mangareva, E. Tregear, 1899
- A Dictionary of Mangareva (or Gambier Islands), E. Tregear, 1899
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