Rakahanga-Manihiki is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the islands of Rakahanga and Manihiki in the northern Cook Islands, and also in New Zealand and Australia. It is considered a variety of Cook Islands Māori, however is differs significantly from Rarotongan, and is in fact closely to New Zealand Māori. In 2011 there were 320 speakers of Rakahanga-Manihiki in the Cook Islands, and 2,500 in New Zealand
Rakahanga-Manihiki was first written with an orthography developed by missionaries from the London Missionary Society for Rarotongan. Some adjustments were needed to take pronunciation differences into account.
Download an alphabet chart for Rakahanga-Manihiki (Excel)
Information about Rakahanga-Manihiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakahanga-Manihiki_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/rkh
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMani-t1-body-d1-d1-d6.html
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 23.04.21
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