Excerpt from A Tahitian and English Dictionary: With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect

Other words, such as the numerals, the personal and possessive pronouns, are nearly the same in all the groups, and probably the same may be said of the use of the adjectives, and of the conjugation of verbs.

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