Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian languages. The Polynesian languages are a group of related languages spoken in the region known as Polynesia. ... The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...
The Eastern Polynesian languages include Rapa Nui, and the central branch, comprised of Rapan, and the Marquesic and Tahitic languages. The Rapa Nui language (also Rapanui) is the Eastern Polynesian language of Easter Island, forming its own subgroup of that classification. ... Marquesic Languages are a small but historically important subgroup of East Central Polynesian Languages, comprising the Marquesan languages of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, Mangarevan, spoken in the Gambier Islands (also in French Polynesia), Hawaiian in its various forms, and Pukapukan, spoken in Puka-Puka and the Disappointment Islands...
Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the Tongic languages spoken in most of Tonga and in Niue. Tongic is a subgroup of the Polynesian languages. ... In Polynesian mythology, Tonga refers to several different ideas. ... Official languages Niuean, English Capital Alofi Head of State Elizabeth II New Zealand High Commissioner Sandra Lee-Vercoe Premier Young Vivian Area – Total – % water 260 km² 0 Population – Total (2003) 2,145 Establishment – Date Niue Constitution Act 19 October 1974 Currency New Zealand dollar Time zone UTC -11 Calling Code...
He said, however, that the language spoken by the Malays and the Polynesians was clear evidence of the origins of the Polynesians.
On the outer islands, the Kiribati language is not in any immediate danger of being lost as a consequence of influences from foreign countries nor is it faced with serious linguistic problems as a result of introduced technologies from developed and industrial nations.
The nuclearPolynesian hypothesis implies that the first split of the proto-Polynesian speech community separated the linguistic ancestors of the present Samoan and Tongan.
The Oceanic languages are members of the Austronesian language family, a language family which, until the advent of European exploration and settlement of the 'New World', had spread out across a considerably larger proportion of the earth than had any other language family.
Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
He maintains that speakers of languages outside the Western Oceanic group migrated from the area in which POC was spoken, and that the languages of the Western Oceanic group evolved by a process of dialect differentiation from that point on.
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