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Appendix 2:

Pollex area codes

 

Note: This list is from Pollex 1998. Codes for languages not present there have been added as necessary and distinguished as such. The code ECE for Ellice Islands has been retained rather than change it to a more intuitive TUV for Tuvalu because in alphabetically arranged cognate tables it appears conveniently close to the geographically adjacent areas of EFU (East Futuna) and EUV (East Uvea).  

 

AIT - Aitutaki (Cook Islands)

ANI - Aniwa (Vanuatu) [Added]

ANU - Anuta (Cherry I.)

ARS - Arosi (Solomons)

AUS - Austral Is.

BGO - Bugotu (Solomons)

EAS - Easter Island

ECE - Tuvalu (Ellice Is.)

EFU - East Futuna (Horne Is.)

EUV - East Uvea (Wallis I.)

FIJ - Fiji

GED - Gedaged (Papua-New Guinea)

HAW - Hawai'i

KAP - Kapingamarangi

KWR - Kwara'ae (Solomons)

LAU - Lau (Solomons)

LWL - Lonwolwol (Ambrym)

MAE - Emae (Vanuatu)

MAO - New Zealand Maori

MFA - Mele-Fila (Vanuatu)

MIA - Mangaia (Cook Is.)

MKI - Manihiki (Cook Is.)

MOR - Mooriori (Chatham Is.)

MOT/MTA - Mota (Vanuatu)

MQA - Marquesas

MQN - Northern Marquesan dialect

MQS - Southern Marquesan dialect

MRA - Manihiki/Rakahanga (Cook Islands)

MTU - Motu (Papua-New Guinea)

MVA - Mangareva

NFU - Nukufetau

NGG - Nggela (Solomons)

NGU - Nguna (Vanuatu)

NIU - Niue I.

NKM - Nukumanu [Added]

NKO -Nukuoro

NKR - Nukuria

OJA - Luangiua (Ongtong-Java, Solomons)

PEN - Penrhyn (Tongareva, Cook Is.)

PIL - Pileni (Solomons)

PMA - Paama (Vanuatu)

PUK - Pukapuka (Northern Cook Is.)

RAG - Raga (Vanuatu)

RAR - Rarotonga (Cook Is.)

REN - Rennell Is. (Solomons [including Bellona Added])

ROT - Rotuma (Fiji)

ROV - Roviana (Solomons)

RUR - Rurutu (French Polynesia)

SAA - Sa'a (Solomons)

SAM - Samoa

SIK - Sikaiana (Solomons)

TAH - Tahitian

TAK - Takuu (Solomons)

TIK - Tikopia (Solomons)

TOK - Tokelau Is.

TON - Tonga

TUA - Tuamotu

TUP - Tupuaki (French Polynesia)

VRA - Vaturaga (Solomons)

WFU - West Futuna (Vanuatu)

WUV or WEV - West Uvea (Ouvea, New Caledonia)

WYA - Waya, (Western Fiji)

 

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