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The Polynesian peoples is a grouping of various ethnic groups that traditionally spoke Polynesian languages
Polynesian languages

The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in the region known as Polynesia. They are classified as part of the Austronesian languages, belonging to the Eastern Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages branch of that family....
 and inhabited Polynesia
Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
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The Polynesian peoples is a grouping of various ethnic groups that traditionally spoke Polynesian languages
Polynesian languages

The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in the region known as Polynesia. They are classified as part of the Austronesian languages, belonging to the Eastern Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages branch of that family....
 and inhabited Polynesia
Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
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Polynesian peoples

The Polynesian peoples include:
  • Maoris
    • Maori Australian
      Maori Australian

      A Maori Australian is an Australian of Maori heritage. In 2008, there were approximately 100,000 people with Maori ancestry living in Australia....
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    • Cook Island Maori
  • Samoans
    Samoans

    Samoans are a Polynesian ethnic group living in the Samoan Islands. On their home islands they are divided between an independent state — Samoa — and a territory of the United States, American Samoa or commonly known as Eastern Samoa....
    • Samoan American
    • Samoan Australian
      Samoan Australian

      A Samoan Australian is an Australian resident who is of ethnic Samoan descent from the of nation Samoa. Many Samoans live in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne....
    • Samoan New Zealander
      Samoan New Zealander

      Samoan New Zealanders are Samoan Islandsn immigrants in New Zealand, their descendants, and New Zealanders of Samoan ethnicity descent. They constitute one of New Zealand's most sizeable ethnic minorities....
  • Hawaiians
  • Rapanui
    Rapanui

    The Rapanui or Rapa Nui are the native Polynesian culture inhabitants of Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean . Today, Rapanui people make up 60% of Easter Island's population....
  • Rotumans
  • Tongans
    Tongans

    Tongans make up the vast majority of the Demographics of Tonga. They are a Polynesian ethnic group with little mixture of Melanesian and whites....


See also

  • History of the Polynesian people
    Polynesia

    Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
  • Polynesian American
  • Pacific Islander
    Pacific Islander

    Pacific Islander , is a regional geography term to describe the Austronesian people inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia....