Rapa Nui is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Rapa Nui or Rapanui (English: /ˌræpəˈnuːi/,[3] Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapaˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapaˈnu.i]), also known as Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken on Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui.
The island is home to a population of just under 6,000 and is a special territory of Chile. According to census data,[4] there are 9,399 people (on both the island and the Chilean mainland) who identify as ethnically Rapa Nui. Census data does not exist on the primary known and spoken languages among these people. In 2008, the number of fluent speakers was reported as low as 800.[5] Rapa Nui is a minority language and many of its adult speakers also speak Spanish. Most Rapa Nui children now grow up speaking Spanish and those who do learn Rapa Nui begin learning it later in life.[6]
^Rapa Nui (Vananga rapa nui)
^Rapa Nui at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Laurie Bauer (2007), The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
RapaNui or Rapanui (English: /ˌræpəˈnuːi/, RapaNui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]), also known as Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) or Pascuense, is an Eastern...
The RapaNui (RapaNui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island. The easternmost Polynesian culture...
Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; RapaNui: RapaNui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific...
Polynesian language. There are three varieties of the Rapalanguage currently being spoken in French Polynesia: Old Rapa, Reo Rapa and New Rapa. Old Rapa has...
Motu Nui (large island in the RapaNuilanguage) is the largest of three islets just south of Easter Island and is the westernmost place in Chile. All...
Rapa, also called Rapa Iti, or "Little Rapa", to distinguish it from Easter Island, whose Polynesian name is RapaNui, is the largest and only inhabited...
MOH-eye; Spanish: moái; RapaNui: moʻai, lit. 'statue') are monolithic human figures carved by the RapaNui people on RapaNui (Easter Island) in eastern...
(also called RapaNui), located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the RapaNui, have endured...
Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/; RapaNui: roŋoroŋo [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island. It is not yet known...
As in other Polynesian islands, RapaNui tattooing had a fundamentally spiritual connotation. In some cases the tattoos were considered a receptor for...
The flag of Easter Island (RapaNui: Te Reva Reimiro or Te Reva RapaNui) is the flag of Easter Island, a special territory of Chile. It was first flown...
double-hulled canoe to "The Center of the Earth" and landed at Anakena, RapaNui (Easter Island). According to Steven Roger Fischer's Island at the End...
RapaNui National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional RapaNui) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. Rapa Nui...
Easter Island, a central stone ahu or a'u is placed. In the Easter Island RapaNui culture, the term ahu or a'u has become a synonym for the whole marae complex...
otherwise known as Easter Island cuisine or RapaNui cuisine incorporates the influences of the indigenous RapaNui people and Latin America. Notable ingredients...
production, transportation and erection of the monumental statuary on RapaNui (Easter Island) known as moai. Mulloy was born May 3, 1917, in Salt Lake...
Maeva Carolina Aguilera Hey is a RapaNui attorney and politician. In 2021, she was elected to represent the RapaNui people in the Chilean Constitutional...
ʻAo Tahi (c. 1850 – August 1892) was the penultimate ‘Ariki or King of RapaNui (i.e. Easter Island) from 1883 until his death. In 1888, he signed a treaty...
Hawaiian. The word has not been recorded from the languages of Western Polynesia or in the RapaNuilanguage. In Hawaiian traditions the first man was Kumuhonua...
department has created primary education texts in the RapaNuilanguage. In 2017, the Nid RapaNui, a non-governmental organization was also created with...
shared by Polynesian languages and several languages of South America: Proto-Polynesian *kumala (compare RapaNui kumara, Hawaiian ʻ'uala, Māori kūmara) may...
languages and languages of South America: Proto-Polynesian *kumala (compare RapaNui kumara, Hawaiian ʻuala, Māori kūmara) may be connected with Quechua and...
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