Mangarevan language

Mangarevan
Spoken in	French Polynesia (on Mangareva Island, Gambier Islands )
speaker	approx. 1,600 (as of 1987)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Oceanic languages Polynesian languages Marquesan languages Mangareva
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	?
ISO 639-3	mrv

Mangarevan (also Mangareva ) is a Polynesian language spoken in Mangareva in French Polynesia .

Mangarevan is most closely related to Hawaiian and the languages ​​spoken in the Marquesas Islands (see Marquesan Languages ). The number of speakers in 1987 was around 1,600.

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• Albrecht Klose: Languages ​​of the World. A global index of language families, individual languages ​​and dialects, with information on synonyms and foreign-language equivalents = Languages ​​of the world . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11404-4 .

Web links

• Ethnologue report: Mangareva. on: ethnologue.org (Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World, 15th edition)