Pukapukan language
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| Pukapukan | ||
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| Spoken in: | Pukapuka and Nassau islands, northern Cook Islands; some in Rarotonga; also New Zealand and Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 2,030 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Samoic-Outlier Pukapukan |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | pkp
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Pukapukan is the Samoic Polynesian language spoken in the Danger Islands (Pukapuka) of the northwest Cook Islands.
The language had 750 speakers in the early 1990s.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher ed. The Atlas of the Worlds Languages (New York: Routlage, 1994) p. 100
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The name of the language they speak on Pukapuka Island (also known as Danger Island) and Nassau Island is called "wale".
