Tahitian language
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Tahitian (Tahitian: Reo Tahiti, part of Reo Māʼohi, languages of French Polynesia)[2] is a Polynesian language, spoken mainly on the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It belongs to the Eastern Polynesian group.
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Tahitian | |
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Reo Tahiti Reo Māʼohi | |
Native to | French Polynesia |
Ethnicity | 185,000 Tahitians |
Native speakers | 68,260, 37% of ethnic population (2007 census)[1] |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ty |
ISO 639-2 | tah |
ISO 639-3 | tah |
Glottolog | tahi1242 |
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As Tahitian had no written tradition before the arrival of the Western colonists, the spoken language was first transcribed by missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the early 19th century.