Tahitians
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)
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- Pre-European period and customs
- Colonization
- Modern day
- See also
- Notes
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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==