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Eastern Polynesia

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Walworth,  Mary
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Walworth, M. (2020). Eastern Polynesia. In E. Adamou, & Y. Matras (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact (pp. 462-479). London: Routledge.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-AF67-2
Abstract
This chapter examines the multitude of contact varieties spoken in Eastern Polynesia, highlighting how the region’s high linguistic diversity and manifold colonial histories have shaped a complex network of language contact. Through a description of the unique histories of contact in Rapa Nui, French Polynesia, Hawai‘i, and New Zealand; this chapter focuses on the social and linguistic processes that have formed the three primary types of contact languages found in Eastern Polynesia: creoles, mixed languages, and regional varieties of English, French and Spanish.