Langenesis

Austronesian family

Rapa Nui

c. 1200 CE – today Living

Rapa Nui (c. 1200 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → … → Proto-Polynesian → Proto-Eastern Polynesian → Rapa Nui.

See Rapa Nui on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
rap
Glottocode
rapa1244

Language of Easter Island, settled ~1200 CE. Endangered; most speakers are bilingual in Spanish.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Proto-Oceanicc. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Pacificc. 1,000 BCE – 800 BCE
  5. Proto-Polynesianc. 800 BCE – 100 CE
  6. Proto-Eastern Polynesianc. 700 CE – 1100 CE
  7. Rapa Nuic. 1200 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Eastern Polynesian.

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