CHAPTER VII. 



DETERMINATION OF THE PLACE OF RAPANUI. 



Having completed this double survey of each of the four other lan- 

 guages of Southeast Polynesia, we are prepared to subject Rapanui 

 itself to the same mathematical analysis, for now we are in a position 

 to establish our comparisons upon the surest possible basis. 



At the outset we present, as in preceding chapters, the systematic 

 analysis of that element of Rapanui speech which is identifiable in so 

 much as one exterior language of the Polynesian family. The following 

 table contains the data upon which our work is based. Piecemeal it 



Table 28. 



Rn-Pau-Mgv-Mq-Ta 

 Rn-Pau-Mgv-Mq .... 



Rn-Pau-Mgv-Ta 



Rn-Pau-Mq-Ta 



Rn-Pau-Mgv 



Rn-Pau-Mq 



Rn-Pau-Ta 



Rn-Pau 



Total 



Rn-Mgv-Mq-Ta 



Rn-Mgv-Mq 



Rn-Mgv-Ta 



Rn-Mgv 



Total 



Rn-Ta-Mq 



Rn-Ta 



Total 



Rn-Mq 



Rn 



Total 



Grand total 



Southeast 

 Polynesia. 



8 



7 

 2 

 1 



4 



49 



12 



6 



89 



21 



3> 



8 



56 



Poly- 

 nesian. 



227 



15 



15 



14 



2 



I 



3 

 o 



Total. 



284 

 29 



24 

 28 

 10 



53 

 20 



7 



277 



89 



24 



10 



7 



'7 



9 



6 



1 



12 



72 



16 

 8 

 1 



5 



116 



>7 



38 



130 



10 



7 



55 



72 

 o 



17 



1 

 6 



28 



30 



o 



5 



3 



53 





 9 



72 



56 



332 



43i 



105 



1 16 



455 



'35 

 69 

 20 

 80 



304 



28 

 53 



81 



76 

 68 



144 



984 



has been offered before, language by language of the province ; here it 

 is massed and points outward, whereas in earlier discussion it has been 

 headed toward Easter Island. 



The first topic which we shall take up for examination is the relative 

 extent of the gross element in each of the five languages of Southeast 

 Polynesia which is identifiable with the means at our command. This 

 is shown in Table 29. 



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