Pukapukan language
| Pukapukan | ||
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Spoken in |
Cook Islands (on Pukapuka and Nassau), Rarotonga , Australia , New Zealand | |
| speaker | 2,030 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
The Puukapuka language or Pukapuka for short (spelling also Puka Puka , Bukabuka , Buka Buka ) is a Polynesian language that is spoken by 840 people in the northern Cook Islands Pukapuka and Nassau . Other speakers now live in Rarotonga , New Zealand and Australia . The total number of speakers is 2,000 (1997 count, according to Ethnologue 2005).
The word sequence is VOS ( Verb-Object-Subject ) or VSO ( Verb-Subject-Object ).