Reo Ra’ivavae (Ra’ivavae, Austral Archipelago, French-occupied Polynesia) - Language Snapshot

Hancock-Teed, J. Drew; Walworth, Mary (2021). Reo Ra’ivavae (Ra’ivavae, Austral Archipelago, French-occupied Polynesia) - Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description, 20, pp. 154-161. EL Publishing

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Reo Ra’ivavae is the autochthonous language of the people of Ra’ivavae, in the Austral Islands of French-occupied Polynesia. It is also spoken in the administrative centre of French-occupied Polynesia, Tahiti, by the Ra’ivavae diaspora. Historically, the language is considered an Eastern Polynesian language that exhibits some unique sound changes, not found elsewhere in the subgroup. The Ra’ivavae population is undergoing language shift to Tahitian and there exists some degree of multilingualism on the island with French as well. While the exact degree of endangerment is unclear, the language is under threat and urgently requires significant study as there is as of yet very little documentation or description of the language.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics

UniBE Contributor:

Hancock-Teed, Jesse Drew Nolan

Subjects:

400 Language > 410 Linguistics
400 Language > 490 Other languages

ISSN:

2756-1224

Publisher:

EL Publishing

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jesse Drew Nolan Hancock-Teed

Date Deposited:

23 Mar 2022 12:26

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:12

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/166607

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/166607

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