Turo Raapoto

[1] In 1975, he joined Jacqui Drollet and Henri Hiro to found Ia Mana Te Nunaa ("Power to the People"), a radical pro-independence party opposed to nuclear testing.

[3] As a linguist he is notable for designing a graphical system for transcribing the Tahitian language.

This system was also adopted for other languages of French Polynesia: in particular, it was adopted in 2001 by the Marquesan Academy, to transcribe the Marquesan language.

[5] Raapoto was a member of the Maohi Protestant Church.

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