Rapa Nui or Rapanui (English: /ˌræpəˈnuːi/, Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]), also known as Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern...
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The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the Indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island. The easternmost Polynesian culture...
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Easter Island (redirect from Rapa Nui)
Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i]) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern...
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Hanga Roa (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
(Spanish pronunciation: [ˈ(x)aŋɡa ˈroa]; Rapa Nui: Haŋa Roa Rapa Nui pronunciation: [ˈhaŋa ˈɾoa] ) (Rapanui language: Long bay) is the main town, harbour...
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Motu Nui is the largest of the islets located off the southwestern coast of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and constitutes the westernmost point of Chile. Covering...
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Polynesian language. There are three varieties of the Rapa language currently being spoken in French Polynesia: Old Rapa, Reo Rapa and New Rapa. Old Rapa has...
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Look up Rapa Nui, rapa nui, Rapanui, or rapanui in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rapa Nui is the native name for Easter Island. Rapa Nui may also refer...
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History of Easter Island (redirect from History of Rapa Nui)
(also called Rapa Nui), located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui, have endured...
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As in other Polynesian islands, Rapa Nui tattooing had a fundamentally spiritual connotation. (Rapa Nui, Easter Island.) In some cases the tattoos were...
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Moai (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; Rapa Nui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern...
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Flag of Easter Island (redirect from Flag of rapa nui)
The flag of Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Te Reva Reimiro or Te Reva Rapa Nui) consists of a white banner with a red reimiro. It was first flown in public...
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department has created primary education texts in the Rapa Nui language. In 2017, the Nid Rapa Nui, a non-governmental organization was also created with...
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King of Easter Island (redirect from Kings of Rapa Nui)
double-hulled canoe to "The Center of the Earth" and landed at Anakena, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). According to Steven Roger Fischer's Island at the End...
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Rongorongo (redirect from Rapa Nui script)
Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/ or /ˈrɒŋoʊˈrɒŋoʊ/; Rapa Nui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island...
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Motu Iti, or Little island in the Rapa Nui language, is a small uninhabited islet near Motu Nui, about a mile from Rano Kau on the south western corner...
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Mata O Te Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui language: The Eye of Rapa Nui) is a Chilean television channel broadcasting from Hanga Roa, Easter Island (Valparaíso Region)...
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Rapa Nui National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Rapa Nui) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. Rapa Nui...
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Orongo (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It consists of a collection of...
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Rapa-Nui is a 1994 American historical action-adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-produced by Kevin Costner, who starred in Reynolds's previous...
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Rapa, also called Rapa Iti, or "Little Rapa", to distinguish it from Easter Island, whose Polynesian name is Rapa Nui, is the largest and only inhabited...
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Isla Salas y Gómez (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
known as Isla Sala y Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ˈsalaj ˈɣomes]; Rapa Nui: Motu Motiro Hiva), is a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific...
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Atamu Tekena (category Rapa Nui monarchs)
ʻAo Tahi (c. 1850 – August 1892) was the penultimate ‘Ariki or King of Rapa Nui (i.e. Easter Island) from 1883 until his death. In 1888, he signed a treaty...
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Carolinian language (Refaluwasch). Rongorongo – possibly used to write the Rapa Nui language. Gagarit Abada – used to write Dusunic languages but it was...
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Creator deity (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
fertility and the chief god of the "Tangata manu" or "bird-man" cult of Rapa Nui mythology. Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatūānuku, the Earth Mother...
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ʻOkina (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Machine "Learn Rapa Nui language". Easter Island Travel. Retrieved 10 September 2024. Kieviet, Paulus (2016-12-12). A Grammar of Rapa Nui. Studies in Diversity...
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Pascuense cuisine (redirect from History of Rapa Nui cuisine)
otherwise known as Easter Island cuisine or Rapa Nui cuisine, incorporates the influences of the indigenous Rapa Nui people and Latin America. Notable ingredients...
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Marae (category Articles containing Rapa Nui-language text)
Easter Island, a central stone ahu or a'u is placed. In the Easter Island Rapa Nui culture, the term ahu or a'u has become a synonym for the whole marae complex...
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William Mulloy (section Rapa Nui archaeology)
production, transportation and erection of the monumental statuary on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) known as moai. Mulloy was born May 3, 1917, in Salt Lake...
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languages have lost the original proto-Polynesian glottal stop /ʔ/; however, it has been retained in Tongan and a few other languages including Rapa Nui...
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major Eastern Polynesian languages include Hawaiian, Marquesan (languages in the Marquesic subgroup), and the Rapa Nui language of Easter Island. While...
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