- Native to
- Cook Islands , New Zealand
- Region
- Polynesia
- Native speakers
- 13,620 in Cook Islands, 96% of ethnic population (2011 census) , 7,725 in New Zealand, 12% of ethnic population (2013)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Tahitic Cook Islands Māori
- Official language in
- Cook Islands
- Regulated by
- Te Kopapa Reo Maori (Maori Language Commission)
- Iso 639 2
- rar
- Iso 639 3
- Variously:, rar – Rarotonga, pnh – Tongareva (Penrhyn), rkh – Rakahanga-Manihiki
- Glottolog
- raro1241 Southern Cook Island Maori, penr1237 Māngarongaro, raka1237 Rakahanga-Manihiki
- Elp
- Southern Cook Islands Maori
- Ietf
- rar-CK, mi-CK