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at Wikimedia Incubator PukapukanRegion Pukapuka and Nassau islands, northern Cook Islands; some in Rarotonga; also New Zealand
and AustraliaNative speakers 3,000+ (date missing)Language family Austronesian Malayo-PolynesianOceanicPolynesian?PukapukanLanguage
codesISO 639-3 pkp Pukapukan is a Polynesian language that developed in isolation on the island of Pukapuka in the northern
group of the Cook Islands. As a Samoic Outlier language with strong links to western Polynesia, Pukapukan is not closely related
to any other languages of the Cook Islands, but does manifest substantial borrowing from some East Polynesian source in antiquity.
Recent research suggests that the languages of Pukapuka, Tokelau and Tuvalu group together as a cluster, and as such had significant
influence on several of the Polynesian Outliers, such as Tikopia and Anuta, Pileni, Sikaiana(all in the Solomon Islands) and
Takuu (off the coast of Bougainville, PNG). There is also evidence that Pukapuka had prehistoric contact with Micronesia,
as there are quite a number of words in Pukapukan that appear to be borrowings from Kiribati (K. & M. Salisbury conference
paper, 2013). Pukapukan is also known as te leo Wale ('the language of Home') in reference to the name of the northern islet
where the people live. The atoll population has declined from some 750 in the early 1990s to less than 500 since the cyclone
in 2005. Literacy in the Pukapukan language was introduced in the school in the 1980s, resulting in an improvement in the
quality of education on the atoll. The language is spoken by over 4,000 people, the vast majority living in a number of migrant
communities in New Zealand and Australia. A bilingual dictionary was started by the school teachers on the island and completed
in Auckland within the Pukapukan community there (publication date 2013). An indepth study of the language has resulted in
a reference grammar (Mary Salisbury, A Grammar of Pukapukan, University of Auckland, 2003 700pp.). The most significant publication
in the Pukapuka language will be the Puka Yaa (Bible), with the New Testament expected to be completed for publishing in 2013. |
Names (more)[de] Pukapukanische Sprache[en] Pukapuka [fi] Pukapukan kieli [gl] Lingua pukapukana [lt] Pukapukiečių kalba [ru] Пукапука [es] Idioma pukapukan [zh] 普卡普卡语 |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : pkpLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pkphttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:pkp More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: pkpFreebase ISO 639-3 : pkp GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |