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- Austronesian
- Tahitic
- Tuamotuan
ISO 639-3 · pmtpmt
Austronesian family
Tuamotuan
Tuamotuan is a language of the Tahitic branch (Austronesian), spoken in France. Wikidata counts about 15,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Polynesian language native to French Polynesia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
pmt- Glottocode
tuam1242- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 25 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
11levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tuamotuan |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tuamotuan language, Pa‘umotu, Paumotu, Pa‘umotu language, Paumotu language |
| All speakers | 15,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Tuamotuan
The branches above Tuamotuan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch220Central–Eastern Oceanicbranch44Central Pacificbranch38Polynesianbranch36Nuclear Polynesianbranch9TahiticbranchpmtTuamotuanlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in France
fraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · InternationaldeuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalnldDutchIndo-European · 23.1 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mgswAlemannicIndo-European · 10 m5 · DevelopingcatCatalanIndo-European · 10 m2 · ProvincialhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalvlsWest FlemishIndo-European · 1.4 m6b · ThreatenedyidYiddishIndo-European · 1 mDefinitely endangeredpflPalatinate GermanIndo-European · 1 m6a · Vigorous