Alternate Names: Bukabukan, Pukapukan
Dialects: None known. Not intelligible with Rarotongan , or other Cook Islands languages. Related to Samoan ,.
Genealogy:
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