Pukapuka
A language of Cook Islands
| Population | 840 in Cook Islands (1997). Population total all countries: 2,030. Ethnic population: 1,200 (1997). |
| Region | Pukapuka and Nasau islands, northern Cook Islands; some in Rarotonga. Also in Australia, New Zealand. |
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Cook Islands |
| Alternate names | Bukabukan, Pukapukan |
| Dialects | Not intelligible with Rarotongan [rar] or other Cook Islands languages. Related to Samoan [smo]. |
| Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Pukapuka |
| Writing system | Unwritten. |
| Comments | VSO, VOS. Fishermen; agriculturalists; copra production. |
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