86.4 of people whose age was 15 or older reported that they had some form of knowledge of at least one Polynesian language, whereas 13.6 reported that they had no knowledge of any of the Polynesian languages.

These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me.

The area was not isolated invaders from Tonga and Samoa, and from Fiji, later introduced Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively.