Language code: ty

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ty

The table below provides technical details for the Tahitian language, designated by the ty code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ty

Name

Official

Tahitian

Native

Reo Tahiti

Family
Oceanic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
TahitiMooreaMaiaoHuahineRaiateaTahaaBora Bora
Related languages
HawaiianMāori (New Zealand)Cook Islands MāoriTuamotuanMarquesan
Key facts
Modern alphabet contains 16 lettersThe word "tattoo" in English originates from Tahitian tatauUses a glottal stop written with an apostrophe and long vowels marked by macronsTraditional counting system groups numbers in twentiesWidely used as a lingua franca among the Society Islands
Sample phrase

Ia ora na, e aha te huru?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Tahitian belongs to the Austronesian language family, more specifically, to the Oceanic subgroup. It is primarily spoken on the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is written using Latin script, and it is estimated that there are around 60,000 to 100,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Tahitian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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