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Mangareva language
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| Mangareva | ||
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| Spoken in: | French Polynesia | |
| Region: | Gambier Islands, Mangareva Island | |
| Total speakers: | 1,600 (1987) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Central Eastern Marquesic Mangareva |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | mrv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Mangareva is a Polynesian language of French Polynesia spoken by about 1600 people on the islands of Gambier and Mangareva. Speakers also have some bilingualism in Tahitian, in which there is a 50-68% lexical similarity.
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