Contact between Old Rapa and Tahitian speakers was indirect and never prolonged , which is also a requirement to be called a koine language .
Reo Rapa is not a koine language , where the language is created due to interaction between two groups speaking mutually intelligible languages .
Contact between Reo Rapa   and Tahitian speakers was indirect and never prolonged , which is also a requirement to be called a koine language .
Reo Rapa is not a koine language , where the language is created due to interaction between two groups speaking mutually intelligible languages .