Te Parau Tinito

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Te Parau Tinito
Native toTahiti
RegionPapeete
Native speakers
None
elderly L2 speakers
Tahitian pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
ELPTe Parau Tinito[1]

Te Parau Tinito (Tahitian for 'Chinese speech') is a moribund pidgin language spoken by ethnic Chinese in Tahiti, primarily in the capital Papeete. It is losing ground to Tahitian and French, and speakers are elderly.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ ELP article scheduled but not created as of 2021-2-10
  2. ^ Christopher Moseley (2008) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages


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