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	Maori
		The word Maori is applied to the people and language of the Cook Islands which are both referred to as Cook Islands Maori[?].
		However this usage is fading as the island group is now more usually called rarotonga and its people and language, rarotongan.
		Māori culture and language is taught in some New Zealand schools and pre-school kohanga reo or language nests teach rangitahi[?] or young children exclusively in Māori.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Maoris.html (690 words)

	The Languages of Oceania
		On his second voyage, Cook had heard the language of Futuna in the Southern New Hebrides and found that it was exactly the same as that spoken at the Friendly Islands.
		He said, however, that the language spoken by the Malays and the Polynesians was clear evidence of the origins of the Polynesians.
		On the outer islands, the Kiribati language is not in any immediate danger of being lost as a consequence of influences from foreign countries nor is it faced with serious linguistic problems as a result of introduced technologies from developed and industrial nations.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_language/index.htm (1619 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.200: Initial Glottal Stop/Zero Contrast
		Bob Hoberman asks if there is a language in which glottal stop is in contrast with 0 in word initial position.
		Rarotongan (Cook Islands - Polynesian) is such a language.
		The Rarotongans make a dish which they call 'ika mata' (raw fish), which is fish marinated in something like coconut milk and (maybe) lime juice, which has the effect of cooking it without heat.
	linguistlist.org /issues/2/2-200.html (589 words)

	BYU - Center for Language Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nonnative speakers may enroll in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses at BYU through the Department of Linguistics and the English Language Center.
		Rarotongan Although BYU does not currently offer courses in Rarotongan, the BYU Humanities Research Center does administer a Rarotongan FLATS Proficiency Exam, which is accepted for language credit at BYU and many other universities.
		Classes in Ukrainian at BYU are scheduled through the Center for Language Studies in cooperation with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages.
	cls.byu.edu /Languages/index.htm (3818 words)

	Tahitian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Most speakers of the language live in the Society Islands (Îles de la Société) and some islands in the Tuamotus including the Mihiroa group.
		It is also spoken in New Caledonia, New Zealand and Vanuatu, and is closely related to Rarotongan and Hawai'ian.
		Until the early 19th century Tahitian was a purely oral language.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tahitian.htm (257 words)

	Hawaiian Culture - History of Hawaii - The Hawaiian Language
		The `Ôlelo Hawai`i, (the Hawaiian language) belongs to a family of languages from central and eastern Polynesia, which includes Hawaiian, Tahitian, Tumotuan, Rarotongan and Maori.
		When they were finished, the alphabet for the Hawaiian language consisted of just 12 letters found in the English alphabet and the `okina, (a symbol that looks much like a backwards apostrophe).
		By the mid-to-late 1800s, Hawaiian became the language used in the courts, school system, the legislature and in government offices.
	www.keikihula.com /culture/language/languagemain.htm (369 words)

	The Rarotongan Language Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rarontongan is a language spoken in the Cook Islands which are about 900km west of Tahiti.
		Rarotongan is sometimes called Rarotongan Maori, but Rarotongan and the native language of New Zealand are in fact different languages.
		It's clear that in Rarotongan, the Tahitian glottal stop at the beginning of words becomes a k.
	www.biroz.net /otherpages/tahiti/song9.htm (507 words)

	Working in Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rarotongan Beach Resort and Spa is made up of nine departments, being Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Front Office, Housekeeping, Food and Beverage, Activities, Finance, Engineering and Security.
		This means that a strong preference is given to offering work permits to those that are seen as contributing to the economy and overall society.
		It is the preference of the Immigration Department and The Rarotongan Beach Resort and Spa to recruit applicants with formal qualifications and experience in the positions that they are applying for e.g.
	www.rarotongan.co.ck /employment/working.htm (835 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Polynesian
		You have reached the page on Polynesian languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Maori is the language of the native inhabitants of New Zealand, most of whom live on New Zealand's North Island.
		Rarotongan is spoken on Rarotonga Island, in the Cook Islands.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/polynesh.htm (970 words)

	Isles of Hiva: Language
		The people who speak these languages are also physically and culturally related, having migrated into the Pacific from a homeland in Western Polynesia.
		Some scholars believe that the Marquesan language, or more specifically the dialect of the Southern Marquesan Islands (Hiva Oa, Tahuata, Fatu Hiva), is the closest relative of Hawaiian language (Green 1966); and that this suggests that the first Hawaiians came predominantly from the southern Marquesas (K.P. Emory 1978).
		Elbert concludes that the linguistic evidence supports the hypothesis of archaeologists that the Hawaiian language derives fr om Marquesan (511).
	pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu /hivalanguage.html (303 words)

	Kohanga reo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kohanga reo (Māori: kōhanga reo, meaning language nests) are kindergartens where all instruction is given in the Māori language.
		Kohanga reo were initially established in New Zealand in 1982, when there were fears that the Māori language was dying out.
		A notable example being the punana leo established in Hawaii to revitalize the indigenous Hawaiian language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kohanga_reo (152 words)

	Religion of the Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Missionaries are responsible for many negative aspects of life in Polynesia but without them there would have been no schools and no written form of the Rarotongan language.
		There is no suggestion that missionaries in the Cook Islands used their influence for personal ends as occurred in other parts of the world.
		Before contact with missionaries, the Rarotongans lived inland deep in the valleys and thus protected from neighboring tribes.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /cook_islands/about_destin/religion.html (883 words)

	Cook islands Maori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pukapukan language is considered by scholars as a distinct language closely related with Samoan and the language spoken on the three atolls of Tokelau.
		As for most South Pacific languages, classical descriptions are generally based on the system used for Indo-European languages, especially concerning grammatical classes.
		A dictionary of the Maori Language of Rarotonga, Manuscript by Stephen Savage, Suva : IPS, USP in association with the Ministry of Education of the Cook Islands, 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cook_Islands_Maori (1814 words)

	Hawaii - Hawaii Language - the Official Hawaii Vacation Travel Information
		Hawaii language is only spoken by estimated 9 000 people, but 85 % of all local place names are Hawaiian.
		Hawaii language belongs to a family of languages from central and eastern Polynesia, which includes Hawaiian, Tahitian, Tumotuan, Rarotongan and Maori.
		That means, it is the easiest phonetical system of the world's languages.
	www.hawaiipoint.com /pages/language.html (235 words)

	gmane.ietf.languages
		The next 16 posts from me will be modification notices to update the Description field of language subtags whose English name has been changed in ISO 639-2.
		And by that account, your choice of a generative mechanism has been a great success; there are very few problems with it in practice, and it has proved to be an extremely valuable tool in the identification of language in software.
		It is not our job to reverse the decisions of the ISO 639 experts as to "one language or two"; I doubt anyone can find a previous instance in the past 11 years where we have done so.
	blog.gmane.org /gmane.ietf.languages/page=2 (1086 words)

	Rarotongan language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Rarotongan or Rarotongan Maori is an Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
		Some sources classify Rarotongan as a dialect of Cook Islands Maori (Māori Kūki 'Āirani).
		Other Cook Islands Maori dialects are Rakahanga-Manihiki; Tongareva dialect (Penrhyn); Ngaputoru dialects of Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke; Aitutaki; and Mangaia.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/rarotongan.htm (136 words)

	Mother-tongue learning: the essential primer
		Maori is closely related to Rarotongan, Tahitian, Hawaiian and other languages spoken in the Polynesian islands from which, according to Maori tradition, seven canoes in early times brought their ancestors to New Zealand.
		After the settlement, the Maoris lost much of their land and, since the educational authorities insisted that only English be spoken in schools, they almost lost their language as well.
		Now a fluent Maori speaker, she believes that a knowledge of the language is the key to giving her people back their self-esteem and raising Maori educational achievement.
	www.unesco.org /education/educprog/wtd_99/english/mother.htm (664 words)

	Pidgins and Creoles
		Pidgins - pidgins are formed among traders or workers who speak different languages and who must develop a lingua franca in order to communicate; pidgins, by definition are not native to anyone; the language that supplies most of the vocabulary to the pidgin is called the lexifier language
		Issues of interest to researchers of pidgins and creoles are closely related to issues in the areas of first and second language acquisition.
		Second language is by definition a hybrid language that in early stages of acquisition is characterized by a L2 lexicon and phonology and syntax heavily influenced by the first language.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~sngynan/slx3.html (981 words)

	Ethnologue: French Polynesia
		The number of languages listed for French Polynesia is 9.
		FRENCH [FRN] 15,338 first language speakers in French Polynesia, foreign born (1977); 50,215 attending French schools, second language speakers (1978); 72,000,000 in all countries (1995 WA).
		Tahitian is spoken as second language; used in church.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/FreP.html (596 words)

	Rarotongan facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		16,800 in Cook Islands, possibly including second language speakers in the northern atolls (Government report 1979); 25,000 in New Zealand (1989); 869 in French Polynesia (1977); 43,000 total.
		Rarotongan is the trade language for all of Cook Islands.
		The government is deciding on the orthography (1987).
	www.ling.su.se /pollinet/facts/rar.html (228 words)

	Cook Islands
		Listed here are the primary and alternate names of the languages of Cook Islands.
		Select a language to find out what materials GRN has available.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /country/CW (89 words)

	The Rarotongan Language Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rarotongan, also sometimes called Rarotongan Maori, is a language spoken on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
		The Cook Islands are about 900km west of Tahiti, and aren't actually part of French Polynesia but are in free association with New Zealand.
		Note that even though this language is sometimes called Rarotongan Maori, Maori and Rarotongan are not the same language.
	www.biroz.net /otherpages/tahiti/raro.htm (382 words)

	AnthroGlobe Bibliography: the Cook Islands
		Carpentier, Tepuaotera Turepu and Clive Beaumont 1995 Kai Korero: A Cook Islands Maori Language Coursebook.
		Church of Latter-Day Saints 1982 Rarotongan Maori for Missionaries.
		Journal of the Polynesian Society 26:1-18, 45-65 1962 A Dictionary of the Maori Language of Rarotonga.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /Biblio/biblio_cooks.html (3767 words)

	University Testing Center
		The Foreign Language Proficiency Exam (FLPE) evaluates language skills in the areas of listening comprehension, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammatical accuracy.
		This exam is given every week by appointment only.
		You may only test 1 time in a language.
	www.testing.sdes.ucf.edu /flpe.html (185 words)

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	www.lmp.ucla.edu /lmd/cals.htm (77 words)

	Definition of rarotongan - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	m-w.com /dictionary/rarotongan (31 words)

	Joshua Project - Languages Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Primary Language Listing A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
		Totals: 1 Peoples-by-Country speak this Language: (1 Primary / 0 Secondary)
		Significant effort is made to match photos with exact people groups.
	www.icta.net /joshuaproject/languages.php?rol3=rsb (502 words)

	Part Two: The Cook Islands \| NZETC
		Numa, John A., MS on Rarotongan history, typescript, Rarotonga 1954.
		Polynesian Society Incorporated, Collection of vernacular MSS in the Rarotongan language (largely anonymous), Polynesian Society, n.d.
		The Origin of the Rarotongans’ in ‘Folk-Songs and Myths from Samoa
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-CroLan-_N120082.html (1485 words)

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