-
Marquises or
Marquises [maʁkiz];
Marquesan: Te
Henua ʻEnana (North
Marquesan) and Te
Fenua ʻEnata (South
Marquesan), both
meaning "the land of men")...
- into two groups,
North Marquesan and
South Marquesan,
roughly along geographic lines. The most
striking feature of the
Marquesan languages is
their almost...
- of the
Polynesian outliers, was
colonized by
Marquesan descendants centered in Tahiti.
Native Marquesan culture was
devastated in the
period following...
- The
Hatutu Marquesan warbler (Acrocephalus
percernis postremus), also
called the
Hatutu Polynesian warbler or the long-billed
Polynesian warbler, is a...
- The
Marquesan Dog or
Marquesas Islands Dog is an
extinct breed of dog from the
Marquesas Islands.
Similar to
other strains of
Polynesian dogs, it was...
- The
Marquesan kingfisher or
Marquesas kingfisher (Todiramphus godeffroyi) is a
species of bird in the
family Alcedinidae. It is
endemic to
French Polynesia...
-
Marquesan reed
warbler has been
split into the
following two species:
Northern Marquesan reed warbler,
Acrocephalus percernis Southern Marquesan reed warbler...
- One
difference between Mangarevan and
Marquesan, is that the
consonant *r
became a
glottal stop in
Marquesan: for example, 'candlenut' is rama in Mangarevan...
- The Eiao
Marquesan warbler (Acrocephalus
percernis aquilonis) is a
subspecies of the
northern Marquesan reed
warbler found only in the dry
upland forest...
-
mutual intelligibility: Tahitian, Tuamotuan, Rapa, Austral,
North Marquesan,
South Marquesan, and Mangarevan. Some of these,
especially Tuamotuan, are really...
