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Tahitian pidgin of Chinese in Tahiti
Te Parau Tinito
Native toTahiti
RegionPapeete
Native speakersNone
elderly L2 speakers
Language familyTahitian pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologtepa1234
ELP

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 mostly elderly.

References

  1. ELP article scheduled but not created as of 2021-02-10
  2. Christopher Moseley (2008) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages


Interlanguages
Multiple
languages
English
Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
French
French Sign
Language
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Malay
Portuguese
Russian
Scandinavian
languages
Spanish
Tahitian
Tagalog
Turkish
Ukrainian
Yiddish
Central Pacific languages
West
East
Polynesian
Nuclear
Polynesian
Samoic
Eastern
Futunic
Tongic
  • * indicates proposed status
  • ? indicates classification dispute
  • † indicates extinct status
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