Map showing the differenciation of Proto-Polynesian language in two subgroups (nuclear polynesian and tongic) around 900. In blue, the name of the Polynesian languages that emerged thereof (note that Niuatoputapu language died under tongan pressure).
<p>From the works of Pawley 1966, 1967, Biggs 1978, Clark 1979. Map inspired by Kirch and Green 2001, Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia, an essay in Historical Anthropology, p. 59
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Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
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