Rapan language

Rapan language

language
name=Rapan
familycolor=Austronesian
states=French Polynesia
speakers=521
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central-Eastern
fam4=Eastern
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East
fam10=Polynesian
fam11=Nuclear
fam12=East
fam13=Central
iso1=-|iso2=-|iso3=ray

Rapan is the language of Rapa, in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. It is classified as an East Central Polynesian language, along with the Marquesic and Tahitic languages.

The language is sufficiently different from the rest of the languages in this group as to warrant its own category within this classification, and is assumed to have developed in relative isolation for nearly 700 years.


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