The Penrhyn language is a Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant[2] belonging to the Polynesian language family.

[3] It is considered to be an endangered language as many of its users are shifting to Cook Islands Māori and English.

The alphabet used in the Penrhyn Dictionary has 21 letters: ⟨a, ā, e, ē, f, h, i, ī, k, m, n, ng, o, ō, p, r, s, t, u, ū, v⟩[4] Long vowels are written with a macron.

Tongareva is one of the few Cook Islands languages without a glottal stop [ʔ].

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