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Proto-Polynesian language

Proto-Polynesian language

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Proto-Polynesian is the hypothetical proto-language
Proto-language
A proto-language is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead....

 from which all modern 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 family, belonging to the Oceanic branch of that family. They fall into two branches: Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian. There is an estimation of almost 5 million...

 descend.
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Proto-Polynesian is the hypothetical proto-language
Proto-language
A proto-language is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead....

 from which all modern 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 family, belonging to the Oceanic branch of that family. They fall into two branches: Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian. There is an estimation of almost 5 million...

 descend.
Polynesian sound correspondences
Phoneme Proto-Polynesian Tongan
Tongan language
Tongan is an Austronesian language spoken in Tonga. It has around 100,000 speakers and is a national language of Tonga. It is a VSO language.-Related languages:...

Niuean
Niuean language
The Niuean language or Niue language is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan and slightly more distantly to other Polynesian languages such as Māori, Sāmoan, and Hawaiian...

Sāmoan
Samoan language
The Sāmoan or Samoan language is the traditional language of Samoa and American Samoa and is an official language—alongside English—in both jurisdictions. It is a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum.There are...

Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui language
The Rapa Nui language is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Rapanui, the inhabitants of Easter Island.-Phonology:The Rapanui language has ten consonants:Five vowels:...

Tahitian
Tahitian language
Tahitian, a Tahitic language, spoken by Tahitians, is one of the two official languages of French Polynesia . It is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to Rarotongan, New Zealand Māori, and Hawaiian.- Alphabet :...

Māori
Maori language
Māori or te reo Māori commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Maori people, where it has is the status of an official language...

Rarotongan
Cook Islands Maori
The Cook Islands Maori language, also called Māori Kūki 'Āirani or Rarotongan, is the official language of the Cook Islands. Most Cook Islanders also call it Te reo Ipukarea, literally "the language of the Ancestral Homeland"....

S. Marquesan Hawaiian
Hawaiian language
The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...

English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...

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