Te Parau Tinito | |
State: | Tahiti |
Region: | Papeete |
Speakers: | none |
Speakers2: | elderly L2 speakers |
Familycolor: | Pidgin |
Family: | Tahitian pidgin |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | tepa1234 |
Elp: | 2454 |
Elpname: | Te Parau Tinito |
Te Parau Tinito[1] (Tahitian for 'Chinese speech') is a moribund pidgin language spoken by ethnic Chinese in Tahiti, primarily in the capital Papeete. It is losing ground to Tahitian and French, and speakers are mostly elderly.[2]