Penrhyn language

Penrhyn language

language
name=Penrhyn
nativename=
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Cook Islands
region=Penrhyn Island, Northern Cook Islands
speakers=600 (1981 Wurm and Hattori)
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian(MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=Polynesian
fam11=Nuclear Polynesian
fam12=Eastern Polynesian
fam13=Central E. Polynesian
fam14=Tahitic
iso3=pnh
The Penrhyn language is a Polynesian language spoken by about 600 people on Penrhyn Island and other islands of the Cook Islands. It is considered to be an endangered language.

External links

*ethnologue|code=pnh


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