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  2. Polynesians - Wikipedia

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    Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and are part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, with an Urheimat in Taiwan .

  3. Polynesia - Wikipedia

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    Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. Polynesian languages show a considerable degree of similarity. The vowels are generally the same—/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/, pronounced as in Italian, Spanish, and German—and the consonants are always followed by a vowel.

  4. Indigenous peoples of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...

  5. Micronesians - Wikipedia

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    Chronological dispersal of Austronesian peoples across the Indo-Pacific [5]. Based on the current scientific consensus, the Micronesians are considered, by linguistic, archaeological, and human genetic evidence, to be a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people, who include the Polynesians and the Melanesians.

  6. Wait, What's the Difference Between Sea Salt and ... - AOL

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    "The difference between sea salt and Himalayan salt, nutritionally, is that most of the time, depending on the source, Himalayan salt is higher in iron, calcium and magnesium," Pelitera explains.

  7. Cuisine of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Some species of land and sea birds were consumed into extinction. [9] Kukui foliage, flowers, and nut (candlenut) was brought to Hawaii by Polynesians. Sea salt was a common condiment in ancient Hawaii, [10] and inamona, a relish made of roasted, mashed kukui nutmeats, sea salt and sometimes mixed with seaweeds, often accompanied the meals. [10]

  8. As A Polynesian Woman, I Absolutely Loved These Small Details ...

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    The heart of Te Fiti is pounamu (Māori greenstone) which is believed to carry the spirit of the ancestors.View Entire Post ›

  9. Melanesians - Wikipedia

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    A follow-up study by Kayser et al. (2008) discovered that only 21% of the Polynesian autosomal gene pool is of Melanesian origin, with the rest (79%) being of East Asian origin. [21] A study by Friedlaender et al. (2008) confirmed that Polynesians are closer genetically to Micronesians, Taiwanese Aborigines, and East Asians, than to Melanesians.