Mangareva language

Mangareva
Native to French Polynesia
Region Gambier Islands, Mangareva Island
Ethnicity 1,340 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
600  (2011 census)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mrv
Glottolog mang1401[2]

Mangareva (or Mangarevan) is a Polynesian language spoken in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia by about 600 people on the islands of Gambier and Mangareva. Speakers also have some bilingualism in Tahitian, in which there is a 60% 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.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Mangareva at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mangareva". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

Mangareva language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator