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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Cook Islands > Rakahanga-Manihiki

Rakahanga-Manihiki

A language of Cook Islands

ISO 639-3rkh

Population  2,500 in Cook Islands (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Population total all countries: 5,000.
Region  Northern Cook Islands, Rakahanga and Manihiki islands. Also in New Zealand.
Language map  Cook Islands
Alternate names   Manihiki-Rakahanga
Dialects  Limited intelligibility with Rarotongan [rar].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, East, Central, Tahitic
Writing system  Unwritten.
Comments  Fishermen; agriculturalists: taro, coconuts.