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Tahitian is the most prominent of the indigenous Polynesian languages spoken in French Polynesia (reo māʼohi). [2] [3] The latter also include: [4] Marquesan, spoken by about 8,000 people in the Marquesas Islands, with two sub-divisions, North-Western (ʼeo ʼenana) and South-Eastern (ʼeo ʼenata)
While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu.
At the 2017 census, among the population whose age was 15 and older, 73.9% of people reported that the language they spoke the most at home was French (up from 68.6% at the 2007 census), 20.2% reported that the language they spoke the most at home was Tahitian (down from 24.3% at the 2007 census), 2.6% reported Marquesan and 0.2% the related ...
Articles on the languages of French Polynesia. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. T. Tahitian language (3 P)
Bora Bora (French: Bora-Bora; Tahitian: Pora Pora) is an island group in the Leeward Islands in the South Pacific. The Leeward Islands comprise the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, which is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. Bora Bora has a total land area of 30.55 km 2 (12 sq mi).
Marquesan is a collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. They are usually classified into two groups, North Marquesan and South Marquesan, roughly along geographic lines. [2]
Since the 1950s, the only language used in education in French Polynesia was French. No Tahitian or Pa‘umotu is taught in schools. [12] The Pa‘umotu language is being monitored by a dedicated regulatory body, called Académie pa'umotu , or Kāruru vānaga. [13] It was created in 2008, [14] following the model of Académie tahitienne. [15]
Contact between Austronesian and Papuan resulted in several instances in mixed languages such as Maisin. Non-indigenous languages include: English in Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand, and other territories; French in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna; Hindi in Fiji; Japanese in Palau; Spanish in Easter Island ...