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Also Known As: Rakahanga-Manihiki Language,Manihiki-rakahanga,Rakahanga...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Rakahanga-Manihiki Language,Manihiki-rakahanga,Rakahanga-Manihiki

<b>Description:</b>

Rakahanga-Manihiki is a Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant belonging to the Polynesian languages family, spoken by about 2500 people on Rakahanga and Manihiki Islands (part of the Cook Islands) and another 2500 in other countries, mostly New Zealand and Australia. Wurm and Hattori consider Rakahanga Manihiki as a distinct language with "limited intelligibility with Rarotongan" (i.e. the Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant of Rarotonga). According to the New Zealand Maori anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa who spent few days on Rakahanga in the years 1920, "the language is a pleasing dialect and has closer affinities with Maori than with the dialects of Tongareva, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands"<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=9761080 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Rakahanga-Manihiki language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cook_islands Cook Islands]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>rkh</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[Central-Eastern Group]]

  [[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]

    [[Oceanic Group]]

      [[Central-Eastern Oceanic Group]]

        [[Remote Oceanic Group]]

          [[Central Pacific Group]]

            [[East Fijian-Polynesian Group]]

              [[Polynesian Group]]

                [[Nuclear Polynesian Group]]

                  [[East Nuclear Group]]

                    [[Central East Group]]

                      [[Tahitic Group]]

                        <b>[[Rakahanga-Manihiki language]]</b>

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Rosbot at 21:39, 12 August 2009