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Mangarevan language

Mangarevan (Rero Magareva)
Spoken in:	Gambier Islands, Tahiti
Total speakers:	~1,000
Ranking:	not in top 100
Genetic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Central Eastern Polynesian Marquesic Mangarevan
Official status
Official language of:	unofficial local use in the Gambier Islands
Regulated by:	-
Language codes
ISO 639-1	-
ISO 639-2	-
SIL	MRV

Mangarevan is the East Central Polynesian language spoken in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. It is a member of the Marquesic subgroup, and as such is closely related to Hawaiian and to the languages of the Marquesas Islands.

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