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Name: Rarotongan

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Cook Island; Cook Islands Maori; Maori; Kuki Airani; Rarotongan-Mangaian; Rarotonga

Spoken in: Cook Islands, New Zealand, French Polynesia

Number of speakers: 7,300 in Cook Islands (2008). Population total all countries: 33,220 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 43000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 42669 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: rar

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Austronesian

Parent Subgroup: Tahitic (tahi)

Child Dialects: Atiu (rar-ati) Mangaia (rar-man) Mauke (rar-mau) Rarotonga (rar-rar) Mitiaro (rar-mit) Aitutaki (rar-ait)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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