Tahitian
language of French Polynesia without official language status
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Summary
Tahitian is a natural language[1]. Tahitian draws 3,209 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #144 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: France[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Tahitic[5]
- Writing system: Latin script[6]
- Part of: regional languages of France[7]
- Commons category: Tahitian language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: ty[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tahitian language[10]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1636[11]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 68,000[12]
- Native label: reo tahiti[13]
- Different from: Tahitians[14]
- Indigenous to: Tahiti[15], Tahitians[16]
- Has phoneme: voiceless bilabial plosive[17], voiceless alveolar stop[18], glottal stop[19], voiced bilabial nasal[20], voiced alveolar nasal[21], voiceless labiodental fricative[22], voiced labiodental fricative[23], voiced glottal fricative[24], voiced alveolar trill[25], close front unrounded vowel[26], close back rounded vowel[27], close-mid front unrounded vowel[28], close-mid back rounded vowel[29], open front unrounded vowel[30]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TAH[31]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[32]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[33], isolating language[34], stress-timed language[35]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Tahitian-language films[36]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Tahitian-language music[37]
- P14541: 3EKafF[38]
Why It Matters
Tahitian has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Tahitian is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]