Felise Leniu
Felise is a Polynesian languages, Polynesian name. Notable people with the name include: *Maika Felise, a Samoan rugby league player and surfer *Felise Kaufusi (born 1992), a New Zealand-born Australian rugby league player *JJ Felise (born 1996), an Australian rugby league player See also

*Taufaʻao Filise (born 1977), a Tongan rugby union player *Felice, an unrelated name {{given name, type=both ...
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Polynesian Languages
The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, in number of speakers, are Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern Polynesians were Lapita navigators, who settled in the Tonga and Samoa areas about 3,000 years ago. Linguists and archaeologists estimate that this first population went through common development during about 1000 years, giving rise to Proto-Polynesian, the linguistic ancestor of all modern Polynesian languages. A ...
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