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the Paumotu amounting to 52 per cent, 26 per cent of Mangareva, 33 

 per cent of Tahiti. The occurrence of these identifications in com- 

 parison of the four languages is shown in Table 23. 



In these figures we have neglected the division upon the Rapanui base. 

 This point we shall next examine. We find that the Marquesan has 655 

 words in common with Rapanui, 34 per cent of the former, just twice 

 as much, 68 per cent of the latter, these ratings resting on identifiable 

 speech figures. 



We now pass to the subdivision of the common element of Marquesan 

 in the other languages of the province. The first table of this series sets 

 forth the sums and percentages for all Southeast Polynesia. 



Table 24. 



Herein we see that the Rapanui element of the Marquesan lacks little 

 of community with the same element in Mangareva and that it is nearly 

 as close to Tahiti, but from the Paumotu it is separated by a consider- 

 able interval. At this point of the inquiry into Tahiti we found that its 

 Rapanui element associated almost equally with the Marquesas and 

 Mangareva, 80 and 78 per cent respectively, and that its association 

 with the Paumotu was 60 per cent, the figure which we have now devel- 

 oped for the Marquesas. From earlier chapters we continue the note 

 that the Rapanui element of Mangareva was more closely associated 

 with the Paumotu (53 per cent), and in the Paumotu it associated most 

 largely with the Marquesan (86 per cent) . The extra-Rapanui element 

 of the Marquesan shows the 

 same points of affiliation, clos- 

 est with the Mangarevan, next 

 with Tahiti by practically the 

 same interval as in the Rapanui 

 element, but far more widely 

 removed from the Paumotu. 

 We have seen that this element 

 in Tahiti associates most largely 

 with the Paumotu (44 per cent) ; in Mangareva there is a 45 per cent 

 association with the Marquesas, and in the Paumotu the association 

 is with Tahiti to the very considerable extent of 84 per cent. 



Table 25 shows the identifications which do not pass beyond South- 

 east Polynesia. 



