Mangareva language
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| Mangareva | ||
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| Spoken in: | French Polynesia | |
| Region: | Gambier Islands, Mangareva Island | |
| Total speakers: | 1,600 (1987) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Central Eastern Marquesic Mangareva |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | mrv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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.
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