Polynesian languages include Maori.
Polynesian languages . The most prominent of these are Tahitian , Sāmoan , Tongan , Māori and Hawaiian . The legendary homeland of the Māori of New Zealand , where w is used instead of v , is called Hawaiki ; in the Cook Islands , where h is replaced with the glottal stop , it is ` Avaiki ; in the Hawaiian Islands , where w is used and k is replaced with the glottal stop , the largest island of the group is named Hawai`i ; in Sāmoa , where s has not been replaced by h , v is used instead of w , and k is replaced with the glottal stop , the largest island is called Savai'i . Tuvaluan language . It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages , such as Hawaiian , Maori , Tahitian , Samoan , and Tongan , and most closely related to the languages spoken on the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia and Northern and Central Melanesia .