Tuamotuan language

Tuamotuan language

language
name=Tuamotuan
nativename=
familycolor=Austronesian
states=French Polynesia
region=the Tuamotus, Tahiti
speakers=14,400 (1987)
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian(MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=Polynesian
fam11=Nuclear Polynesian
fam12=Eastern Polynesian
fam13=Central E. Polynesian
fam14=Tahitic
iso3=pmt
The Tuamotuan language (or paumotu / pa’umotu) is a Tahitic language spoken by about 6700 people in the Tuamotu Islands and an additional 2000 in Tahiti.

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