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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Tahitian

<b>Description:</b>

Tahitian, a Tahitic language, spoken by Tahitians, is one of the two official languages of French Polynesia (along with French). It is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to Rarotongan, New Zealand Māori, and Hawaiian.
Typologically, Tahitian word order is VSO (Verb-Subject-Object), which is typical of Polynesian languages. It also features a very small number of phonemes, as further evidence of its linguistic heritage: five vowels and eight consonants not counting the lengthened vowels, diphthongs and the glottal stop.
The glottal stop or ’eta is a genuine consonant. (People unfamiliar with Tahitian might mistake it for a punctuation mark.) This is typical of Polynesian languages (compare to the Hawaiian ʻokina and others). However, in Tahitian the glottal stops are seldom written in practice, and if they are, often as a straight apostrophe ' , instead of the curly apostrophe. The native speakers know where to pronounce them and are not taught to write them down. Alphabetical word ordering in dictionaries ignores the existence of glottals. Admittedly, the Tahitian glottal is normally weak, except in a few words like i’a (fish), and easily missed by the untrained ear of<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=463361 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Tahitian Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tah_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tah_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tah_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tah_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/french_polynesia French Polynesia]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>ty</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>tah</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>[[Tahitian Language]]</b>

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