Moriori language

Moriori
Moriori
Ta Rē Moriori
Native to	New Zealand
Region	Polynesia
Extinct	1898, with the death of Hirawanu Tapu
Revival	20th century–2001
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian Eastern Polynesian Tahitic Māori–Moriori Moriori; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rrm
Glottolog	mori1267
IETF	mi-u-sd-nzcit

Moriori, or ta rē Moriori ('the Moriori language'), was a Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori and was spoken by the Moriori, the indigenous people of New Zealand's Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori), an archipelago located east of the South Island.

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