Reo Tahiti

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Reo Tahiti is the indigenous Polynesian language spoken primarily in Tahiti and other islands of French Polynesia.

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Reo Tahiti canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Polynesian language
indigenous language
altName Reo Māʼohi NERFINISHED
Tahitian NERFINISHED
Tahitian language
closelyRelatedTo Hawaiian language
Marquesan languages NERFINISHED
New Zealand Māori language NERFINISHED
Rarotongan language
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasGlottocode tahi1242
hasGlottologName Tahitian
hasLoanwordsFrom French language NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType analytic language
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory
hasRegulatoryBody Académie Tahitienne – Fare Vānaʻa NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
influenced Reo Maohi varieties of other Society Islands
ISO639-1Code ty
ISO639-2Code tah
ISO639-3Code tah
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
Polynesian languages
region Central Pacific NERFINISHED
spokenIn Austral Islands NERFINISHED
French Polynesia NERFINISHED
French overseas collectivity of French Polynesia NERFINISHED
Gambier Islands NERFINISHED
Leeward Islands NERFINISHED
Society Islands NERFINISHED
Tahiti NERFINISHED
Tuamotu Archipelago NERFINISHED
Windward Islands NERFINISHED
status recognized regional language of France
threatened language
subclassOf Eastern Polynesian language
Tahitic language
usedAs lingua franca in French Polynesia
usedFor broadcasting in French Polynesia
education in some schools in French Polynesia
usedIn Catholic church services in French Polynesia
Protestant church services in French Polynesia
Tahitian songs and chants
traditional Tahitian oral literature
writingStandardizedBy missionaries in the 19th century

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