Rakahanga-Manihiki is a Tahitic language belonging to the Polynesian language family, spoken by about 2500 people on Rakahanga and Manihiki Islands (part...

per square kilometer. Since 2014 Rakahanga's electicity has been 100% solar generated. The Rakahanga-Manihiki language differs from Cook Islands Maori...

over Manihiki and three other islands. In August 1963, a small boat, Tearoha, set sail from Manihiki to Rakahanga for food. On leaving Rakahanga on 15...

Cook Islands (collectively referred to as Cook Islands Māori) are: Rakahanga-Manihiki Penrhyn (Tongarevan or Mangarongaro); Southern: Rarotongan, Ngā Pū...

Polynesia) Rarotongan (Cook Islands Māori, Cook Islands) Rakahanga-Manihiki (Rakahanga and Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands) Penrhyn (or Tongarevan; Tongareva...

engineering, possibly unsurpassed elsewhere in Polynesia. The islands of Manihiki and Rakahanga trace their origins to the arrival of Toa Nui, a warrior from the...

present in loanwords from languages like Rakahanga-Manihiki and Tahitian. Tongareva is one of the few Cook Islands languages without a glottal stop [ʔ]...

is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling...

and also relinquishing any American claims to Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga. In 1990 the Cook Islands and France signed a treaty that delimited...

Marquesic languages Hawaiian Marquesan Northern Southern Mangerevan Tahitic languages Austral Māori Tuamotuan Penrhyn Rarotongan Rakahanga-Manihiki Tahitian...

tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...

Tuvalu, Tokelau and the Northern Cook Islands (Pukapuka, Nassau, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Suwarrow and Palmerston) Western Polynesia Tonga Samoa...

unique culture and developed their own language, which is currently recognized as one of two official languages in the Cook Islands, according to the Te...

reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the indigenous language of the Māori people, the...

western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...

are: Central Pacific languages Eastern Outer Islands languages Loyalty Islands languages Micronesian languages New Caledonian languages North and Central...

Bacan Malay or Bacan is a Malayic language spoken on the island of Bacan in North Maluku province, Indonesia, by the minor Bacan ethnic group. It is an...

indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...

Teor and Kur are two Austronesian language varieties of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch spoken near Kei Island, Indonesia. They are reportedly...

pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...

Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...

Islands Aitutaki Atiu Mangaia Manihiki Manuae Mauke Mitiaro Nassau Palmerston Island Penrhyn Island/Tongareva Pukapuka Rakahanga Rarotonga Suwarrow Takutea...

Polynesian Pidgin was a Polynesian-based pidgin that was the main contact language for European exploratory and whaling expeditions to the Pacific before...

Rarotonga, 9 degrees south of the equator. Its nearest neighbours are Rakahanga and Manihiki, approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi) to the southwest. Once one...

Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...

Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken...

The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not...

Western Bisayan language spoken, along with the Romblomanon and Asi languages, in the province of Romblon, Philippines. The language is also known as...

Tokelauan (/toʊkəˈlaʊən/) is a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and historically by the small population of Swains Island (or Olohega) in American...

Atauran is an Austronesian language spoken on Atauro island and in Manatuto Municipality, East Timor. It is closely related to Wetarese and Galoli. Atauran...