Langenesis

Austronesian family

Tahitian

c. 1100 CE – today Living

Tahitian (c. 1100 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → … → Proto-Polynesian → Proto-Eastern Polynesian → Tahitian.

See Tahitian on the interactive map
Speakers
70K (70,000)
ISO 639-3
tah
Glottocode
tahi1242

Tahitic branch of Eastern Polynesian; spoken in the Society Islands, French Polynesia.

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. Tahitianc. 1100 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Eastern Polynesian.

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