Rapa Nui language
Rapa Nui ko Rapanui (Turanci: /ˌræpəˈnuːi/, Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Mutanen Espanya: [ˈrapa ˈnu.I]), wanda aka fi sani da Pascuan (/ˈpæskjuən/) ko Pascuense, yare ne na Gabashin Polynesian na dangin yaren Austronesian. Ana magana da shi a Tsibirin Easter, wanda aka fi sani da Rapa
Nui .
tsibirin yana da yawan jama'a a ƙasa da 6,000 kuma yanki ne na musamman na Chile. Dangane da bayanan ƙidayar jama'a, [1] akwai mutane 9,399 (a tsibirin da kuma ƙasar Chile) waɗanda ke nuna kansu a matsayin kabilanci na Rapa Nui. Bayanan ƙididdigar ba su wanzu a kan harsunan da aka sani da ake magana a tsakanin waɗannan mutane. [2] shekara ta 2008, an bayar da rahoton yawan masu magana da kyau har zuwa 800. Rapa Nui yare ne na 'yan tsiraru kuma yawancin masu magana da shi suna magana da Mutanen Espanya. Yawancin yara [3] Rapa Nui yanzu suna girma suna magana da Mutanen Espanya kuma waɗanda suka koyi Rapa Nui sun fara koyon shi daga baya a rayuwa.
Tarihi
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Harshen Rapa Nui ya ware a cikin Gabashin Polynesia, wanda ya haɗa da yarukan Marquesic da Tahitic. A cikin Gabashin Polynesian, ya fi kusa da Marquesan morphologically, kodayake phonology dinsa yana da alaƙa da New Zealand Māori, saboda harsuna biyu suna da ra'ayin mazan jiya wajen riƙe consonants da suka ɓace a wasu harsunan Polynesian na Gabas.
Kamar dukkan harsunan Polynesian, Rapa Nui yana da ƙananan ƙwayoyin. Musamman ga harshen Polynesian na Gabas, Rapa Nui ya adana asalin asalin Proto-Polynesian. Yana da, ko kuma har zuwa kwanan nan, yare ne na farko.
Ɗaya daga cikin mahimman littattafan kwanan nan da aka rubuta game da harshen Rapa Nui shine Verónica du Feu's Rapanui (Descriptive Grammar) ( ).
- ↑ 2017 Chilean census data Archived 2023-05-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Fischer 2008
- ↑ Makihara 2005a: p. 728