Pukapuka

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A language of Cook Islands

ISO 639-3
pkp
Alternate Names
Bukabukan, Pukapukan
Population

450 in Cook Islands (2011 census). Population total all countries: 2,400.

Location

Pukapuka and Nassau islands, northern Cook Islands; 200 in Rarotonga. Also in Australia, New Zealand.

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Language Status

6b (Threatened).

Classification
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Pukapuka
Dialects

Not intelligible with Rarotongan [rar] or other Cook Islands languages. Related to Samoan [smo].

Typology

VSO, VOS

Language Use

While it is spoken by almost everyone on the island including children and non-native spouses, it has few written resources and is in a diglossic relationship with Cook Islands Maori, the national language.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Pukapuka
Writing
Latin script.