Rapa language

Spoken in

Austronesian

  • Malayo -Polynesian oceanic polynesian Eastern Polynesian The Central East

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Rapanisch is the language of Rapa in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.

Rapanisch is critically endangered because the rigid French Language only allow the French and minority languages ​​marginalized. So French Polynesia French only approved as official and language of instruction. Rapanisch has no status, should not be taught in schools and has not spread in the media of the controlled area of France. Consequently, the speaker of the Rapanischen always use more French as their mother tongue and forget their own language, so that the number of speakers has dropped to below 521 and continues to fall.

Rapanisch is classified as an eastern zentralpolynesische language, together with the marque Saxon languages ​​and Tahitian languages.

The language differs sufficiently from the rest of the languages ​​that are in this group and forms within the classification of their own language category. The language has evolved over the last 700 years in relative isolation.

Swell

  • Ethnologue report on the Rapanische language (English )
  • Polynesian languages
  • Single language
Language family Rapa Iti Tuha'a Pae Official language Eastern Polynesian languages
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