Rapa Nui
Facts
- Language: Rapa Nui
- Alternate names: Easter Island, Pascuense, Rapanui
- Language code: rap
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 2400
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Rapa Nui is a language of Chile. It is spoken in Easter Island, 3,800 km from Chile, 4,000 km from Tahiti. Also in French Polynesia, United States.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 64% with Hawaiian (See: Hawaiian), Mangareva (See: Mangareva), and Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan); 63% with Marquesan (See: Marquesan, North); 62% with Tahitian (See: Tahitian) and Tuamotuan (See: Tuamotuan).
The Rapa Nui Verb
Verblist
- 'oka
- 'ono
- 'ui
- 'ā'anu
- agi
- ao
- atu
- garo
- gaugau
- geu
- gogoro
- ha'ere
- haha'u
- hakapei
- hakaꞌite
- hana
- haro
- hata
- hatu
- hatuhatu
- havahava
- haꞌi
- heŋaheŋa
- hinga
- hongi
- hā
- hāꞌaki
- iŋoiŋo
- kai
- karo
- kata
- kau
- kavakava
- ki
- kume
- kumekume
- kā
- ma'u
- mama
- mana'u
- mara
- mataku
- mate
- mo'a
- moe
- muía
- ngahaa
- ngaroꞌa
- ngau
- noho
- oka
- omo
- ora
- poko
- puhi
- pā
- raku
- rara
- raŋa
- rere
- roŋoroŋo
- rua
- ruku
- rukuruku
- rumaruma
- tarai
- tataku
- taviri
- tehe
- tiga'i
- tikeꞌa
- tingo
- tu'u
- tui
- tutu
- tā
- u'i
- unu
- uru
- vae
- vahi
- vero
- vā
- ʻai
- ꞌaꞌaru
- ꞌori
- a/bahi, avahi, hore, motu, tarai -- to cut, hack
- àànu, aanu -- to spit
- aaru, kuku -- to hold
- aga, haŋa -- to work
- agi -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ahu -- to swell
- bero, vero -- to throw
- eke -- to climb
- gaha, ihi, ŋahaa -- to split
- garo'a -- to hear
- gatu -- to squeeze
- gau -- to bite
- ha/ha'u/, haha'u -- to tie up, fasten
- haa -- to breathe
- haere -- to walk
- hahata -- to open, uncover
- haka/mama -- to yawn
- higa, hiŋa, topa -- to fall
- hogi, hoŋi -- to sniff, smell
- ho'o, mono -- to buy
- huki, oka -- to stab, pierce
- ka/karo/, kakaro, keri -- to dig
- kai -- to eat
- kata -- to laugh
- katikati, raku -- to scratch
- kau -- to swim
- kî -- to say
- kori -- to steal
- mama -- to chew
- mana'u -- to think
- mataku, riaria -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- moe -- to dream
- moe -- to lie down
- moe -- to sleep
- noho -- to sit
- oka -- to plant
- omo, omo/omo -- to suck
- ora -- to live, be alive
- poko -- to hunt
- puhi -- to blow
- rere -- to fly
- riku, tupu -- to grow
- romi -- to hide
- rua -- to vomit
- tagi, taŋi -- to cry
- tataku -- to count
- taviri, teka -- to turn
- tehe -- to flow
- tiga'i -- to kill
- tikea -- to see
- tui, tui/tui -- to sew
- tunu -- to cook
- tutu -- to burn
- tu'u -- to come
- tu'u -- to stand
- tu'u, tutu -- to hit
- unu -- to drink
- vae -- to choose