ชาวพอลินีเชีย

Also known as Polynesian people

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and are part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, with an Urheimat in Taiwan. They speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily within the Austronesian language family. The Indigenous Māori people form the largest Polynesian population, followed by Samoans, Native Hawaiians, Tahitians, Tongans, and Cook Islands

Key facts

Ethnic group.group: Polynesians
Ethnic group.image: Maori dance.jpg
Ethnic group.image_caption: Māori people in the North Island, New Zealand
Ethnic group.population: 2,000,000
Ethnic group.pop1: 1,157,478
Ethnic group.pop2: 988,519
Ethnic group.pop3: 409,805
Ethnic group.pop4: 215,000
Ethnic group.pop5: 192,342
Ethnic group.pop6: 103,036
Ethnic group.pop7: 17,683
Ethnic group.pop8: 10,760
Ethnic group.pop9: 10,645
Ethnic group.pop10: 9,399
Ethnic group.languages: Polynesian languages (Hawaiian, Māori, Rapa Nui, Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, Tuvaluan and others), English, French and Spanish
Ethnic group.religions: Christianity (96.1%) and Polynesian mythology
Ethnic group.related: other Austronesian peoples, Euronesians