• Kuki Airani) or, controversially, Rarotongan. Many Cook Islanders also call it Te reo Ipukarea, literally "the language of the Ancestral Homeland". Cook...
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    report that they find the languages of the Cook Islands, including Rarotongan, the easiest amongst the other Polynesian languages to understand and converse...
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  • Islands Māori, Paumotu, Tuamotoan, Rarotongan, as well as New Zealand Māori. Similarities between Mangarevan, Rarotongan and Tahitian include the nominalizing...
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    Māori and Cook Islands Māori (Rarotongan). Certain regular correspondences can be noted between different Polynesian languages. For example, the Māori sounds...
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  • is a list of endangered languages of Oceania, based on the definitions used by UNESCO. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling...
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  • before-school initiatives in New Zealand that instruct in Pacific languages, e.g. Fijian, Rarotongan, Samoan, and Tongan and other countries adopting a similar...
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    The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia...
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    John Williams (missionary) (category Translators of the Bible into Polynesian languages)
    supervised the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Rarotongan language. They brought back a native of Samoa named Leota, who came to live...
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    Rapa Marquesic languages Hawaiian Marquesan Northern Southern Mangerevan Tahitic languages Austral Māori Tuamotuan Penrhyn Rarotongan Rakahanga-Manihiki...
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    Manihiki taught the alphabet that missionaries had created for the Rarotongan language, which has two fewer consonant sounds than Rakahangan/Manihikian...
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