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Tahitian language

LC control no.sh 85131922
LC classificationPL6515
Topical headingTahitian language
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Variant(s)Neo-Tahitian language
Reo Tahiti language
Tahiti language
See alsoFrench Polynesia--Languages
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Polynesian languages
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Found inEthnologue, Jan. 8, 2019 (Tahitian; a language of French Polynesia; autonym: Reo Tahiti; location: Leeward Islands; Windward Islands; some islands in Tuamotu and Gambier Islands including the Mihiroa group; 63,000 speakers in French Polynesia; total speakers in all countries, 68,000; classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, East, Central, Tahitic)
MultiTree, March 7, 2019: (Tahitian; language spoken in New Zealand, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Vanuatu; alternate names: Tahiti; Neo-Tahitian; family: Austronesian)