Nuclear Polynesian languages
Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian languages.
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Geographic distribution | Polynesia |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Glottolog | nucl1485[1] |

Major subgroups of Polynesian
The Eastern Polynesian group comprises two major subgroups: Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island, and Central-Eastern, which is itself composed of Rapan, and the Marquesic and Tahitic languages.
Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the Tongic languages spoken in most of Tonga and in Niue.
Languages
- Samoic
- Eastern Polynesian
Alternative classification
- Futunic languages
- Pukapuka
- Ellicean languages
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nuclear Polynesian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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