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The Eastern Polynesian group comprises two major subgroups: Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island, and Central-Eastern, which is itself composed of Rapan, and the Marquesic and Tahitic languages. Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the Tongic languages spoken in most of Tonga ...
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The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of...
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Proto-Polynesian. Proto-Polynesian (abbreviated PPn) is the...
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Tongic. Nuclear Polynesian. The Polynesian languages are a...
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Māori language. Samoan language. Nuclear Polynesian languages. Hawaiian language. Tahitian language. (Show more) Polynesian languages, group of about 30 languages belonging to the Eastern, or Oceanic, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family and most closely related to the languages of Micronesia and Melanesia.
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Other articles where Nuclear Polynesian languages is discussed: Austronesian languages: Polynesian languages: …Tongic (Tongan and Niue) and Nuclear Polynesian (the rest). Nuclear Polynesian in turn contains Samoic-Outlier and Eastern Polynesian. Maori and Hawaiian, two Eastern Polynesian languages that are separated by some 5,000 miles of sea, appear to be about as closely related as Dutch ...
1.1. The claim is made here on grounds of comparative morphology that all the well-described Polynesian (PN) languages spoken within the Polynesian Triangle(2), apart from Tongan, Niue, and possibly Uvean, belong in a subgroup of Polynesian. This subgroup, called here Nuclear Polynesian (NP), also includes at least one Polynesian Outlier(3).
