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has URI | http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/rkh |
has gloss | eng: Rakahanga-Manihiki is a Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant belonging to the Polynesian languages family, spoken by about 2500 people on Rakahanga and Manihiki Islands (part of the Cook Islands) and another 2500 in other countries, mostly New Zealand and Australia. Wurm and Hattori consider Rakahanga Manihiki as a distinct language with "limited intelligibility with Rarotongan" (i.e. the Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant of Rarotonga). According to the New Zealand Maori anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa who spent few days on Rakahanga in the years 1920, "the language is a pleasing dialect and has closer affinities with Maori than with the dialects of Tongareva, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands" |
lexicalization | eng: Rakahanga-Manihiki language |
subclass of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cook_Islands_Maori |
subclass of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Cook_Islands_Maori |
subclass of | c/Tahitic languages |
instance of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tahitic_languages |
instance of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Tahitic_languages |
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has gloss | fin: Rakahanga-manihiki (myös rakahanga, manihiki) on austronesialainen kieli. Sitä puhuu äidinkielenään noin 5 000 ihmistä. Heistä noin puolet asuvat Manihikin ja Rakahangan saarilla, Cookinsaarilla. Myös Uudessa-Seelannissa on jonkin verran puhujia. Kieli on läheistä sukua rarotongan kielelle. Rakahanga-manihikillä ei ole kirjoitettua muotoa. |
lexicalization | fin: Rakahanga-manihikin kieli |
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