Tahitian French

E593415

Tahitian French is a regional variety of French spoken in French Polynesia that incorporates vocabulary, pronunciation, and structures from the Tahitian language.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
French Polynesian French 1
Tahitian French canonical 1
français tahitien 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French-based spoken variety
regional variety of French
belongsTo French Polynesian culture
country France
hasAlternativeName français de Tahiti
français tahitien
linked to: Tahitian French
hasFeature Tahitian-influenced pronunciation
code-switching with Tahitian
loanwords from Tahitian
phonology influenced by Tahitian
prosody influenced by Tahitian
regional lexical items not used in metropolitan French
some syntactic calques from Tahitian
hasInfluenceFrom Tahitian language
hasLexicalFeature use of Tahitian kinship terms in French discourse
use of Tahitian place names in French speech
hasPhoneticFeature realization of French /r/ closer to Tahitian phonetics in some speakers
hasRegister colloquial register
informal register
hasSociolinguisticFeature coexists with code-switching between French and Tahitian
marker of local identity in French Polynesia
hasStatus regional French variety without separate official status
influencedBy language contact between French and Tahitian
isRegulatedBy no separate language academy
languageFamily Romance languages
originatesFrom French colonization of Tahiti and surrounding islands
partOf French language varieties
region Leeward Islands (French Polynesia)
Society Islands
Tahiti
Windward Islands (French Polynesia)
linked to: Society Islands
spokenIn French Polynesia
subordinateTo French language
linked to: French
timePeriod contemporary era
typicalDomain everyday conversation in French Polynesia
informal communication
local media
usedAlongside Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French

Tahitian language
usedBy Francophone population of French Polynesia
inhabitants of Tahiti
usesVocabularyFrom French language
linked to: French

Tahitian language
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tahitian language hasInfluenced Tahitian French
Moorea hasLanguage French Polynesian French
linked to: Tahitian French
Tahitian French hasAlternativeName français tahitien
linked to: Tahitian French