Tahitian Language (tah)

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Also Known As: Tahitian


Description:

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..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Tahitian Language Speakers

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Rosetta Document Collection

Genesis Translation:
1(download)(browse)
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:
1(download)(browse)

Overview

Main Country: French Polynesia
Spoken In:

Regions: Oceania

ISO 639-1 Code: ty
ISO 639-3 Code: tah

Classification Taxonomy

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

                        Tahitian Language