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Polynesian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Polynesian is the
adjectival form of Polynesia. It may
refer to:
Polynesians, an
ethnic group Polynesian...
- The
indigenous people who
inhabit the
islands of
Polynesia are
called Polynesians. They have many
things in common,
including linguistic relations, cultural...
-
Polynesians are an
ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia,
which encomp****es the
islands within the Polynesian...
- The
Polynesian languages form a
genealogical group of languages,
itself part of the
Oceanic branch of the
Austronesian family.
There are 38
Polynesian languages...
- The Malayo-
Polynesian languages are a
subgroup of the
Austronesian languages, with
approximately 385.5
million speakers. The Malayo-
Polynesian languages...
- The
Polynesian Triangle is a
region of the
Pacific Ocean with
three island groups at its corners:
Hawaii (Hawaiʻi),
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and New Zealand...
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Polynesian navigation or
Polynesian wayfinding was used for
thousands of
years to
enable long
voyages across thousands of
kilometres of the open Pacific...
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archipelagos in the
Polynesian Triangle)
together with
those of the
scattered cultures known as the
Polynesian outliers.
Polynesians speak languages that...
- The
Polynesian rat,
Pacific rat or
little rat (Rattus exulans), or kiore, is the
third most
widespread species of rat in the
world behind the
brown rat...
- The
Central Pacific languages, also
known as Fijian–
Polynesian languages, are a
branch of the
Oceanic languages spoken in Fiji and Polynesia. Ross et al...
