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- closely related to the Anuta language of the neighboring island of Anuta. Tikopian is also spoken by the Polynesian minority on Vanikoro, who long ago migrated...
- Lovono or Vano (4 speakers) Tanema (1 speaker) The Tikopian settlers speak a Polynesian language, Tikopian or fakatikopia. The first sighting of Vanikoro...
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- Province as the southernmost of the Solomon Islands. Some discussions of Tikopian society include its nearest neighbour, the even tinier island of Anuta...
- high degree of mutual intelligibility, although Anutans can understand Tikopians better than the reverse.: 6  Anuta is generally regarded as Nuclear Polynesian...
- In Polynesian mythology (specifically Tikopia), Atua I Raropuka is a creator being, often spoken of in tandem with his wife, Atua Fafine. Raropuka is the...
- "te tapa" translated as "to burst forth with light." Lewis noted that Tikopians were unaware of te lapa. George, having been to sea many times, had seen...
- In the mythology of Tikopia, the Atua I Kafika (also known as Sako) is a culture hero and supreme god. McKinnon, S. (1990). "The matrilateral transference...
- as sword guards, teacups, knives, and gl**** beads. He learned from the Tikopians that the items had come from two ships wrecked some years before on the...