Mangaian Māori

E820100

Polynesian language variety dialect

Mangaian Māori is a Polynesian language variety spoken on Mangaia in the Cook Islands, considered a dialect of Cook Islands Māori.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Mangaian Cook Islands Māori	1
Mangaian Māori canonical	1
Mangaian Māori dialect	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9775318 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Mangaian Māori
Context triple: [Mangaian dialect, hasAlternativeName, Mangaian Māori]

A. Te Reo Māori
Te Reo Māori is the Indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori people of New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages.
B. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori is New Zealand’s Māori Language Commission, responsible for promoting, protecting, and revitalising the Māori language.
C. Te Ākitai Waiohua
Te Ākitai Waiohua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Waiohua confederation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, with deep ancestral, cultural, and historical ties to the Manukau region.
D. Moriori language
The Moriori language is an extinct Polynesian language once spoken by the indigenous Moriori people of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands.
E. Te Kōti Mana Nui
Te Kōti Mana Nui is the Māori-language name for the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the country’s highest judicial authority.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Mangaian Māori
Target entity description: Mangaian Māori is a Polynesian language variety spoken on Mangaia in the Cook Islands, considered a dialect of Cook Islands Māori.

A. Te Reo Māori
Te Reo Māori is the Indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori people of New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages.
B. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori is New Zealand’s Māori Language Commission, responsible for promoting, protecting, and revitalising the Māori language.
C. Te Ākitai Waiohua
Te Ākitai Waiohua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Waiohua confederation in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, with deep ancestral, cultural, and historical ties to the Manukau region.
D. Moriori language
The Moriori language is an extinct Polynesian language once spoken by the indigenous Moriori people of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands.
E. Te Kōti Mana Nui
Te Kōti Mana Nui is the Māori-language name for the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the country’s highest judicial authority.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Polynesian language variety ⓘ dialect ⓘ
closelyRelatedDialectOf	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
country	Cook Islands ⓘ
endangeredStatus	potentially endangered ⓘ
geneticallyRelatedTo	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language Hawaiian language ⓘ linked to: Hawaiian Marquesan languages ⓘ New Zealand Māori ⓘ linked to: Māori Rapa Nui language ⓘ Rarotongan Māori ⓘ linked to: Rarotongan language Tahitian ⓘ linked to: Tahitian language
hasAlternativeName	Mangaian Māori dialect ⓘ linked to: Mangaian Māori Mangaian dialect of Cook Islands Māori ⓘ
hasAncestor	Proto-Austronesian language ⓘ linked to: Proto-Austronesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ Proto-Oceanic language ⓘ Proto-Polynesian language ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder	VSO or VOS ⓘ
hasDialects	local village varieties on Mangaia ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Mangaian people ⓘ
hasLexicalSimilarityWith	New Zealand Māori ⓘ Tahitian ⓘ linked to: Tahitian language
hasMorphologicalType	predominantly analytic ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	typical Polynesian five-vowel system ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ Eastern Polynesian languages ⓘ linked to: Polynesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Oceanic languages ⓘ Polynesian languages ⓘ
languageRole	marker of Mangaian identity ⓘ
languageStatus	minority language in the Cook Islands ⓘ
locatedInArea	Polynesia ⓘ South Pacific Ocean ⓘ
partOf	Cook Islands Māori language continuum ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
region	Mangaia Island NERFINISHED ⓘ
sharesGrammarWith	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
sharesPhonologyWith	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
sharesVocabularyWith	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
spokenIn	Cook Islands ⓘ Mangaia ⓘ
subclassOf	Cook Islands Māori ⓘ linked to: Cook Islands Māori language
usedBy	Mangaian community ⓘ
usedIn	local cultural practices on Mangaia ⓘ oral tradition on Mangaia ⓘ traditional songs and chants on Mangaia ⓘ
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.

Mangaian dialect → hasAlternativeName → Mangaian Māori ⓘ

Mangaian dialect → hasAlternativeName → Mangaian Cook Islands Māori ⓘ

linked to: Mangaian Māori

Mangaian Māori → hasAlternativeName → Mangaian Māori dialect ⓘ