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Where is Rakahanga-Manihiki spoken?

Rakahanga-Manihiki is an Austronesian language, spoken in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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  • Sino-Tibetan
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  • Afro-Asiatic
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  • Otomanguean
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Where Rakahanga-Manihiki is spoken

Rakahanga-Manihiki is spoken in 2 countries: the Cook Islands and New Zealand.

Country
Cook Islands
New Zealand

Rakahanga-Manihiki has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Rakahanga-Manihiki?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Rakahanga-Manihiki sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Rakahanga-Manihiki as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Austronesian
  2. Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  4. Oceanic
  5. Central Pacific linkage
  6. Tokalau Fijian
  7. Polynesian
  8. Nuclear Polynesian
  9. Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian
  10. Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian
  11. Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian
  12. East Polynesian
  13. East Polynesian Proximal
  14. Southern East Polynesian Proximal
  15. Rakahanga-Manihiki

Related languages

Other languages in the Southern East Polynesian Proximal group:

More about Rakahanga-Manihiki

Codes: ISO 639-3 rkh, Glottolog raka1237. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Rakahanga-Manihiki

Where is Rakahanga-Manihiki spoken?

Rakahanga-Manihiki is spoken in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Rakahanga-Manihiki in?

Glottolog places Rakahanga-Manihiki in the Austronesian family, in the branch Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokalau Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, East Polynesian Proximal and Southern East Polynesian Proximal.

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