how is the place linked to the americas?
The sweet potato, called in Māori, is native to the Americas and was widespread in Polynesia when Europeans first reached the Pacific
Polynesia
The sweet potato, called in Māori and in Quechua, is native to the Americas and was widespread in Polynesia when Europeans first reached the Pacific.
who said english is our major window on the modern world UNANSWERABLE how is this language classified? It is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. which are some of the dialects? British English (BrE) and North American English (NAE) and Australian and New Zealand English what are the notable features of the first dialect? It revolve around the pronunciation of the letter R, as well as the dental plosive T and some diphthongs specific to this dialect. does the last dialect has any non english influence? Yes, influence of Māori in what way is this influence seen? It is mostly lexical; many local everyday words have been borrowed from it where did this language which influenced english originate? Current anthropological thinking places their origin in eastern Polynesia, mostly likely from the Southern Cook region does it have any status officially? Yes, by the passing of the Māori Language Act 1987 which efforts were made to revive it? Businesses adopt the trend as it became apparent that using "te reo" made customers think of a company as "committed to New Zealand" and it became increasingly heard in the media and in politics. are there any other languages in the area where this language originated? Polynesian languages
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Polynesia [SEP] Links to the Americas
The sweet potato, called in Māori and in Quechua, is native to the Americas and was widespread in Polynesia when Europeans first reached the Pacific. Remains of the plant in the Cook Islands have been radiocarbon-dated to 1000, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia and spread across Polynesia from there, possibly by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back. New genetic evidence, however, suggest that sweet potatoes may have reached Polynesia via seeds by at least 100,000 years ago, pre-dating human arrival. There are also other possible material and cultural evidence of Pre-Columbian contact by Polynesia with the Americas with varying levels of plausibility.