Rarotongan is one of the Polynesian languages that is spoken in the Cook Islands. It is an Eastern Polynesian language that is the official language of the Cook Islands officially known as Cook Islands Māori. Cook Islands Māori is closely related to New Zealand Māori, but is a distinct language in its own right. Categories: Cook Islands.. Cook Islands Maori is also known as Rarotongan, named after the island's capital, and is the most commonly spoken form of Maori. However native Cook Islanders more often refer to it as Te reo Ipukarea which quite literally translates to 'the language of the Ancestral Homeland'. In 2003, Cook Islands Maori was named as an official Cook Islands.

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Rarotongan is a variety of Cook Islands Māori spoken on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, where is has official status. There are 14,000 speakers in the Cook Islands, according to the 2011 census, and 7,725 speakers in New Zealand, according to the 2013 census. Rarotongan is also known as Māori, Cook Islands Māori ( Māori Kūki.. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: COOK ISLANDS MAORI AND ENGLISH A Papa'a's Guide. A papa'a is a foreigner - the word literally means four layers of clothes and refers to the way missionaries used to dress. James Chalmers from Scotland (pictured) was one such missionary who arrived in Rarotonga in 1867 and spent the next 10 years of his life working there.