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Mangareva language

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Mangareva
Native toFrench Polynesia
RegionGambier Islands, Mangareva Island
Ethnicity1,340 (2011 census?)[1]
Native speakers
600 (2011 census)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mrv
Glottologmang1401
ELPMangareva

Mangareva (or Mangarevan) is a Polynesian language spoken in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia by about 600 people on the islands of Gambier and Mangareva. Speakers also have some bilingualism in Tahitian, in which there is a 60% lexical similarity, and usually with French as well. It is a member of the Marquesic subgroup, and as such is closely related to Hawaiian and to the languages of the Marquesas Islands.

Notes

  1. ^ Mangareva language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Mangareva at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

References

  • Charpentier, Jean-Michel; François, Alexandre (2015). Atlas Linguistique de Polynésie Française — Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia (in French and English). Mouton de Gruyter & Université de la Polynésie Française. ISBN 978-3-11-026035-9.
  • A dictionary of Mangareva, E. Tregear, 1899
  • A Dictionary of Mangareva (or Gambier Islands), E. Tregear, 1899
Mangareva language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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