MANGAREVA AS A CENTER OF DISTRIBUTION. 



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Referred to the Nuclear Polynesian base, the alphabet of Mangarevan 



is displayed in the following conspectus: 



a a, e 

 e e, a o o 



i i, e u m 



1 r, n 

 ng ng, n n n, ng mm 



h h, - 

 s h, - 



v v 



f v, h, - 

 k k, - t / p p 



The interplay of the palatal and lingual nasals is not critical of 

 Mangarevan, it is a mutation which occurs sporadically in most of the 

 Polynesian languages and which becomes critical in the Hawaiian 

 only. The critical points are the absence of the sibilant and f . The 

 speech is therefore one phonetic degree or stage further removed from 

 the Nuclear Polynesian than is the Paumotu. 



In the foregoing chapter the tables will be found to include a list of so 

 much of the Mangarevan contained in the accompanying word-lists as 

 is found in the Paumotu, either exclusively or shared as a common 

 element with Rapanui. From those tables we sum the result for 

 convenient reference in the following showing: 



Table 8. 



Pau-Rn-Mgv-Mq-Ta 

 Pau-Rn-Mgv-Mq .... 



Pau-Rn-Mgv-Ta 



Pau-Rn-Mgv 



Total 



Pau-Mgv-Mq-Ta .... 



Pau-Mgv-Mq 



Pau-Mgv-Ta 



Pau-Mgv 



Total 



Grand total 



Southeast 

 Polynesia. 



8 

 7 



2 

 4 



Poly- 

 nesian. 



Proto- 

 Samoan. 



227 



5 



'5 



2 



21 



259 



9 



1 



1 1 



8 



2 



7 



4 



59 



67 



21 



Tongafiti. 



40 



6 

 7 

 3 



56 



47 



4 



25 



3 



89 



Total. 



284 



29 

 24 

 IO 



347 



106 

 18 

 68 

 44 



236 



80 



326 



32 



45 



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Referring to the dictionary of Rapanui, we shall in our next series of 

 tables record the phases of that element of the speech which Mangareva 

 and Easter Island share exclusive of the Paumotu. 



The first group of the tables lists so much of the common element as is 

 not identifiable outside the province of Southeast Polynesia : 



