Nuclear Polynesian includes the languages of the Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian languages.
Facts
RegionIncludes Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island, and the Central-Eastern group composed of Rapan, Marquesic and Tahitic languages, within the wider Eastern Polynesian branch. 1 Proto-Language StatusNuclear Polynesian descends from Proto-Polynesian, the reconstructed common ancestor of every modern Polynesian language, itself descended from Proto-Oceanic and, further back, Proto-Austronesian. Wikipedia treats this reconstruction under the single Proto-Polynesian article rather than as a separately named Proto-Nuclear-Polynesian language, since Nuclear Polynesian is one of Proto-Polynesian's two primary branches (the other being Tongic) rather than a coordinate reconstruction of its own. 2 Connections
Ancestor Of
Ellicean (the Ellice or Tuvaluan-Polynesian outliers group) is classified within the Samoic-Outlier branch of Nuclear Polynesian, spoken in Tuvalu and on several outlier islands in Melanesia and Micronesia.
Marquesic is usually classified within Eastern Polynesian, itself within Nuclear Polynesian; no Eastern Polynesian entity exists live in this atlas, so this edge links directly to Nuclear Polynesian languages, one rank higher than the ideal placement. A future mint of Eastern Polynesian languages should re-parent this edge.
Tahitic is usually classified within Eastern Polynesian, itself within Nuclear Polynesian; no Eastern Polynesian entity exists live in this atlas, so this edge links directly to Nuclear Polynesian languages, one rank higher than the ideal placement. A future mint of Eastern Polynesian languages should re-parent this edge.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Nuclear Polynesian Languages
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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.
2. Wikipedia: Proto-Polynesian Language
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Proto-Polynesian (abbreviated PPn) is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Polynesian languages descend.
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