Penrhyn_language

Penrhyn language

Penrhyn language

Northern Cook Islands Māori dialect

The Penrhyn language is a Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant[2] belonging to the Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 200 people on Penrhyn Island and other islands in the Northern Cook Islands.[3] It is considered to be an endangered language as many of its users are shifting to Cook Islands Māori and English.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

Phonology

Main article: Cook Islands Maori § Writing system and pronunciation

Alphabet

The alphabet used in the Penrhyn Dictionary has 21 letters: ⟨a, ā, e, ē, f, h, i, ī, k, m, n, ng, o, ō, p, r, s, t, u, ū, v⟩[4]

Long vowels are written with a macron.

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
  1. [f] is present in loanwords from languages like Rakahanga-Manihiki and Tahitian.

Tongareva is one of the few Cook Islands languages without a glottal stop [ʔ]. There is allophonic voicing of stops present.[4]

Grammar

Main article: Cook Islands Maori § Grammar

References

  1. [1]
    Penrhyn at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Te Reo Maori Act 2003 – via www.paclii.org
  3. [3]
    "Penrhyn". Ethnologue. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  4. [4]
    "About - Penrhyn Dictionary". Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages.

Further reading

  • Shibata, Norio, ed. (2003). Penrhyn-English Dictionary. ELPR Publications Series. Vol. A1-005. Kyoto: Nakanishi. OCLC 249683569.


This article about Central Pacific languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Penrhyn_language, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.