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Rapa Nui

A language of Chile

ISO 639-3: rap

Population	3,390 in Chile (2000). 2,200 on Easter Island; 200 to 300 on Chile mainland, Tahiti, and USA. Ethnic population: 3,500.
Region	Easter Island, 3,800 km from Chile, 4,000 km from Tahiti. Also in French Polynesia, United States.
Language map	Argentina and Chile
Alternate names	Easter Island, Pascuense, Rapanui
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 64% with Hawaiian [haw], Mangareva [mrv], Rarotongan [rar]; 63% with Marquesan [mrq]; 62% with Tahitian [tah], Tuamotuan.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, East, Rapanui
Language use	Also use Spanish.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO. Fishermen; craftsmen.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Buckingham, Andrew. 1985. Review of: The language of Easter Island: its development and Eastern Polynesian relationships, by Robert Langdon and Darrell Tryon.

Paoa, Francisco Edmunds and others. 1993. Programas para la enseñanza de la lengua Rapa Nui.

Phelps, Conrad. 1985. "First writers workshop on Easter Island."

Weber, Nancy L. 1988. Case marking in Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language of Easter Island.

Weber, Nancy. 2003. Marca de caso en Rapa Nui, lengua polinésica de Isla de Pascua.

Weber, Robert L. 1988. "Procesos fonológicos en la adquisición ‘naturalista’ del español por los rapa nui de la Isla de Pascua."

Weber, Robert L. 1988. The verbal morphology of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language of Easter Island, and its function in narrative discourse.

Weber, Robert L. and Nancy L. Weber. 1982. "Apuntes sobre la fonología de la lengua rapa nui de Isla de Pascua."

Weber, Robert L. and Nancy L. Weber. 1985. Hacia el establecimiento de un sistema escrito para el rapa nui, lengua de la Isla de Pascua.

Weber, Robert L. and Nancy L. Weber. 1990. "¿Podrá sobrevivir el idioma rapa nui?."

Weber, Robert L. and Nancy L. Weber. 1995. "Rapa Nui."

Weber, Robert. 2003. Morfología verbal del Rapa Nui, lengua polinésica de Isla de Pascua, y su función en la narración.

Vernacular Publications

A Eva he oho ki hiva ki toʼona hāpī. 1984.

ʼAʼamu ga poki riki-riki. 1984.

ʼAʼamu o rapa nui. 1986.

E rua g̈a poki o rapa nui. 1985.

He ʼaʼamu e toru o kahu-kahu o hera. 1984.

He ʼaʼamu o te poki e tahi ko Taurama, toʼona igoa. 1984.

He ʼaʼamu o te poreko häga o Puakiva. 1984.

He himene o te haga rahi. 1984.

He matavai o nua. 1984.

He oromatuʼa ko Sebastián Englert. 1985.

He puhia ʼi ruga i te vaka. 1984.

He via he agä o Eugenio Eyraud. 1984.

He via o te Tupahotu. 1985.

Koromaki o Tahoga. 1985.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero Rapa Nui, te hā puka 4. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero Rapa Nui, te ono puka 6. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero rapa nui, te puka raʼe 1/te rua puka 2. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero Rapa Nui, te rima puka 5. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero Rapa Nui, te toru puka 3. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero rapa nui. 1990.

Mai ki hāpī tātou i te taiʼo ʼe i te papaʼi i to tātou ʼarero rapa nui. 1990.

Matahiti hapi. 1985.

Matu ki oho ki te hare hāpī. 1991.

Mo hāpī i te vanag̈a Rapa Nui: he puka ra'e 1-4. 1996.

Poki tagi. 1984.

Taparahi. 1985.

Tapati rapa nui. 1984.

Tokerau puhi hapi. 1985.

Ure ʼa ʼOhovehi. 1985.