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Tahitians
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Also known as Maohis, Maohi, Taʻata māʻohi, Taʻata tahiti

200px|thumb|Tahitians, The Tahitians (; ) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Tahiti and thirteen other Society Islands in French Polynesia. The numbers may also include the modern population in these islands of mixed Polynesian and French ancestry (). Indigenous Tahitians are one of the largest Polynesian ethnic groups, behind the Māori, Samoans and Hawaiians.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group
Tahitians (Māohi)Taata Tahiti (Maohi)Tahitiens
Ethnic group.image
File:TahitiGirls.png
Ethnic group.caption
Tahitian girls
Ethnic group.pop
185,000(Ethnic Tahitians worldwide)
Ethnic group.popplace
178,133(on Tahiti only, August 2007 census)
Ethnic group.pop1
5,062 (2010)
Ethnic group.pop2
1,737 (2018)
Ethnic group.langs
Tahitian, French
Ethnic group.rels
Predominantly ChristianTahitian mythology
Ethnic group.related
Other Polynesians (particularly Native Hawaiians and Rapa Nui)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Pre-European period and customs
  • Colonization
  • Modern day
  • See also
  • Notes
  • External links

200px|thumb|Tahitians, The Tahitians (; ) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of Tahiti and thirteen other Society Islands in French Polynesia. The numbers may also include the modern population in these islands of mixed Polynesian and French ancestry (). Indigenous Tahitians are one of the largest Polynesian ethnic groups, behind the Māori, Samoans and Hawaiians.

==History==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tahitians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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