Polynesian Languages

The Polynesian languages are a family of about forty Oceanic languages spoken across the islands of the Polynesian triangle, from Hawaii and New Zealand to Easter Island, including Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan, Tongan and Tahitian, one of the best studied and most closely related subgroups within Oceanic thanks to the region's relatively recent settlement history. This group holds every New Guinea and Pacific Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Polynesian or as a named language or branch within the Polynesian family, excluding the unrelated Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian, which despite the similar name is a much larger and much more distantly related grouping filed under this subcategory's Austronesian (Oceanic) Languages group instead.