Old Rapa, the indigenous Eastern Polynesian language of the island of Rapa Iti, is no longer spoken regularly in any cultural domains and has been replaced in most institutional domains by Tahitian. The remaining speakers are elders who maintain it only through linguistic memory, where elements of the language are remembered and can be elicited but they are not actively used in regular conversation. Reo Rapa, a contact language that fuses Tahitian and Old Rapa, which has developed from the prolonged and dominant influence of the Tahitian language in Rapa Iti since the mid nineteenth century, has replaced the indigenous Old Rapa language at home and between most people in regular social interaction. This article analyzes Reo Rapa through an examination of its genesis and its structure. This article furthermore defines Reo Rapa as a unique contact variety, a shift-break language: a language that resulted from stalled shift due to a collective anti-convergence sentiment in the speech community. This article further discusses a variety of Reo Rapa speech, New Rapa, which presents important questions for the natural-ness of language change and the visibility of actuation.

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Reo Rapa：波利尼西亚联系语言

拉帕伊蒂岛的东波利尼西亚土著语言老拉帕不再在任何文化领域经常使用，在大多数机构领域已被大溪地取代。剩下的说话者是长者，他们只能通过语言记忆来维持语言，语言的元素被记住并可以被引出，但在日常对话中不会主动使用。Reo Rapa 是一种融合了大溪地语和旧拉帕语的接触语言，它是从 19 世纪中叶以来拉帕伊蒂大溪地语的长期和主导影响发展而来的，在家里和大多数普通人之间已经取代了本土的旧拉帕语。社交联系。本文通过检查其起源和结构来分析 Reo Rapa。本文进一步将 Reo Rapa 定义为一种独特的联系变体，一种转变中断语言：一种由于语音社区中的集体反收敛情绪而导致转变停滞的语言。本文进一步讨论了 Reo Rapa 的各种演讲，New Rapa，它提出了关于语言变化的自然性和驱动的可见性的重要问题。