| Country |
Languages
(Official in Bold) |
Ethnicity
& Race |
|
American Samoa |
Samoan, English [unincorporated territory of USA] |
Samoan (89%); Caucasian (2%); Tongan (4%); Other (5%)
|
|
Australia |
English |
Caucasian (92%); Asian (7%); Aboriginal (353,000) & Other
(1%) |
|
Cook Islands |
English, Maori [free association territory of NZ] |
Polynesian [full blood] (81.3%); Polynesian & European
(7.7%); Polynesian & non-European (7.7%); European (2.4%); Other
(0.9%) |
|
Fiji |
Fijian, Hindustani, English |
Fijian (51%); Indian (44%); European, Other Pacific Islanders,
overseas Chinese, & Other (5%) [1998] |
|
French Polynesia |
French, Tahitian [French overseas possession] |
Polynesian (78%); Chinese (12%); local French (6%); metropolitan
French (4%) |
|
Guam |
English, Chamorro, Japanese [unincorporated territory of USA] |
Chamorro (37%); Filipino (26%); White (10%); Chinese, Japanese,
Korean & Other (27%) |
|
Kiribati |
English, I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) |
Micronesian |
|
Marshall Islands |
Marshallese (a language in the Malayo-Polynesian family) &
English |
Micronesian |
|
Micronesia |
English; major indigenous languages are Chukese, Pohnpeian,
Yapase, & Kosrean |
Nine ethnic Micronesian & Polynesian groups |
|
Nauru |
Nauruan & English |
Nauruan (58%); Other Pacific Islander (26%); Chinese (8%);
European (8%) |
|
New Caledonia |
French, 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects [French
overseas department] |
Melanesian (42.5%); European (37.1%); Wallisian (8.4%);
Polynesian (3.8%); Indonesian (3.6%); Vietnamese (1.6%); Other (3%) |
|
New Zealand |
English, Maori |
European (79.1%); Maori (9.7%); Pacific Islander (3.8%); Asian
& Other (7.4%) |
|
Niue |
Polynesian dialect (closely related to Tongan and Samoan),
English [free association territory of NZ] |
Polynesian [with ~200 Europeans, Samoans, & Tongans] |
|
Norfolk Islands |
English, Norfolk (mixture of 18th century
English & ancient Tahitian) [Australian external territory] |
Descendants of Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealanders,
Polynesians |
|
Northern Mariana Islands |
English, Chamorro, Carolinian (86% of population speaks a
language other than English at home) [commonwealth territory of
USA] |
Chamorro, Carolinians & Other Micronesians; Caucasian;
Japanese; Chinese; Filipino; Korean |
|
Palau |
Palauan, English |
Composite of Polynesian, Malayan, & Melanesian races |
|
Papua New Guinea |
English, Tok Pisin (a Melanesian Creole English), Hiri Motu, &
717 distinct native languages |
Papuan; Melanesian; Negrito; Micronesian; Polynesian |
|
Pitcairn Islands |
English, Pitcairnese (mixture of 18th century
English and a Tahitian dialect) [British dependent territory] |
Descendents of Bounty mutineers & their Tahitian wives |
|
Samoa |
Samoan & English |
Samoan (92.6%); Euronesians (7%) [persons of European &
Polynesian blood]; Europeans (0.4%) |
|
Solomon Islands |
English, Solomon Pijin (an English pidgin), over 60 indigenous
Melanesian languages |
Melanesian (93%); Polynesian (4%); Micronesian (1.5%); European (0.8%); Chinese
(0.3%); Other (0.4%) |
|
Tonga |
Tongan (an Austronesian language), English |
Polynesian, European [about 300] |
|
Tokelau |
Tokelauan, English [NZ dependent territory] |
Polynesian |
|
Tuvalu |
Tuvaluan, English |
Polynesian (96%) |
|
Vanuatu |
Bislama (a Melanesian pidgin English), English, French |
Indigenous Melanesian (98%); French; Vietnamese;
Chinese; other Pacific Islanders |
|
Wallis & Futuna |
French, Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language) [French
overseas territory] |
Polynesian |
