Pukapuka

PKP

threatened

Alternate Names: Bukabukan, Pukapukan

Dialects: None known. Not intelligible with Rarotongan , or other Cook Islands languages. Related to Samoan ,.

Genealogy:

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

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

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.

Typology: VSO, VOS.

Writing System: Latin