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Northern Cook Islands Māori dialect
The Penrhyn language is a Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant belonging to the Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 200 people on Penrhyn Island and other islands in the Northern Cook Islands . It is considered to be an endangered language as many of its users are shifting to Cook Islands Māori and English .
Phonology
Main article: Cook Islands Maori § Writing system and pronunciation
Alphabet
The alphabet used in the Penrhyn Dictionary has 21 letters: ⟨a, ā, e, ē, f, h, i, ī, k, m, n, ng, o, ō, p, r, s, t, u, ū, v⟩
Long vowels are written with a macron .
Consonants
f ] is present in loanwords from languages like Rakahanga-Manihiki and Tahitian .
Tongareva is one of the few Cook Islands languages without a glottal stop [ʔ ]. There is allophonic voicing of stops present.
Grammar
Main article: Cook Islands Maori § Grammar
References
Penrhyn at Ethnologue Te Reo Maori Act 2003 "Penrhyn" . Ethnologue . Retrieved 7 March 2013.^ "About - Penrhyn Dictionary" . Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages .
Further reading
Shibata, Norio, ed. (2003). Penrhyn-English Dictionary . ELPR Publications Series. Vol. A1-005. Kyoto: Nakanishi. OCLC 249683569 .
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Penrhyn is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger