“Language Families of the World” S:1 E:21 Languages of the South Seas II

S:1 E:21 Languages of the South Seas II The languages of Polynesia are estimated to be some of the newest languages in the world, emerging only in the last millennium. Look back to the earliest cultures of the Polynesian islands to see how the languages likely originated and were disseminated, branching into separate sub-groups like Oceanic and the three that are all spoken on the small island of Formosa.