Editing Nuclear Polynesian languages

{{Short description|Language branch}}
{{Sources|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Nuclear Polynesian
|region=[[Polynesia]]
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
|fam3=[[Oceanic languages|Oceanic]]
|fam4=[[Polynesian languages|Polynesian]]
|child1=[[Eastern Polynesian languages|Eastern Polynesian]]
|child2=[[Samoic languages|Samoic]]
|glotto=nucl1485
|glottorefname=Nuclear Polynesian
}}

[[Image:PPnMajorGroups.png|right|Major subgroups of Polynesian]]'''Nuclear Polynesian''' refers to those languages comprising the [[Samoic languages|Samoic]] and the [[Eastern Polynesian languages|Eastern Polynesian]] branches of the [[Polynesian languages|Polynesian]] group of [[Austronesian languages]].

The Eastern Polynesian group comprises two major subgroups: [[Rapa Nui language|Rapa Nui]], spoken on [[Easter Island]], and [[Central-Eastern Polynesian languages|Central-Eastern]], which is itself composed of [[Rapa language|Rapan]], and the [[Marquesic languages|Marquesic]] and [[Tahitic languages]].

Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the [[Tongic languages]] spoken in most of [[Tonga]] and in [[Niue]].

==Languages==
{{tree list}}
*'''Nuclear Polynesian'''
**[[Samoic languages|Samoic]]
***[[East Uvean–Niuafo'ou languages]]
***[[Ellicean languages]]
***[[Futunic languages]]
***[[Pukapukan language|Pukapuka]]
***[[Samoan language|Samoan]]
***[[Tokelauan language|Tokelauan]]
**[[Eastern Polynesian languages|Eastern Polynesian]]
***[[Rapa Nui language|Rapa Nui]]
***[[Central Eastern Polynesian languages|Central Eastern Polynesian]]
****[[Rapa language|Rapa]]
****[[Marquesic languages]]
*****[[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]]
*****[[Marquesan language|Marquesan]]
******[[North Marquesan language|Northern]]
******[[South Marquesan language|Southern]]
*****[[Mangarevan language|Mangerevan]]
****[[Tahitic languages]]
*****[[Austral language|Austral]]
*****[[Māori language|Māori]]
*****[[Tuamotuan language|Tuamotuan]]
*****[[Penrhyn language|Penrhyn]]
*****[[Rarotongan language|Rarotongan]]
*****[[Rakahanga-Manihiki language|Rakahanga-Manihiki]]
*****[[Tahitian language|Tahitian]]
{{tree list/end}}

==Alternative classification==
{{tree list}}
*'''Nuclear Polynesian'''
**[[Futunic languages]]
**[[Pukapukan language|Pukapuka]]
**[[Ellicean languages]]
***[[Samoic languages|Samoic]]
****[[Samoan language|Samoan]]
****[[Tokelauan language|Tokelauan]]
***Ellicean–Outlier
****[[Tuvaluan language|Tuvaluan]]
****[[Nukuoro language|Nukuoro]]
****[[Kapingamarangi language|Kapingamarangi]]
****[[Nukuria language|Nukuria]]
****[[Takuu language|Takuu]]
****[[Nukumanu language|Nukumanu]]
****[[Ontong Java language|Ontong Java]]
****[[Sikaiana language|Sikaiana]]
****[[Vaeakau-Taumako language|Pileni]]
***[[Eastern Polynesian languages|Eastern Polynesian]]
{{tree list/end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Polynesian languages}}

[[Category:Nuclear Polynesian languages| ]]