Rapa Nui girl in Easter Island

Girl speaking Rapa Nui language in the Easter Island.

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• isla
• de
• pascua
• ilha
• pascoa
• rapanui

[vaitaaboy]

`Ia orana korua / Greetings to you

To`oku ingoa ko ..Niko Toki / My name is Niko Toki

To'oku hare teia / there is my home

To`oku henua ..nehenehe .... tohu te meitahi / My island ... so beautiful ... so peaceful

Toku te rangi / My sky so beautiful

very close to Mauke & Tahiti reo

[ConejerosEmBrasil]

@vaitaaboy if I can remember well, I begged her to say some phrases in rapanui language to make this footage; when I realized she was hesitant about the theme I told her: "say something about this place, your environment, about yourself, your house..." Hernán Conejeros - regards from Brazil

[ConejerosEmBrasil]

@vaitaaboy many thanks for translating.. really impress me how all the girl's words are in the context of the situation in that moment when i was visiting the island in february 2008... prior to these moments she had told us (Hilda Konell and me) that she was 13 or 14 and wanted to go away from the island because was envisioning marrying a foreigner, preferably a French one...

[littlewitchtwc]

@t3b4n22 Yes, Easter Island is a Chilean Island, and the natives speak Rapa Nui and Spanish too

[vaitaaboy]

@ConejerosEmBrasil ... the translation given is from the mauke (cook islands) & tahiti languages & very similar. i live in nz but understand rapanui ... cheers..

[t3b4n22]

clearly her native language is spanish, not rapa nui, and that's ok, don't forget she is chilean!

[ConejerosEmBrasil]

@CASJ25 Sí, soy chileno pero viviendo desde hace 34 años en el Brasil

[Heke1959]

@CASJ25 no:(,sou de frio pais,y voce?

[CASJ25]

@Heke1959 Yeah, Probably...Tu eres de Chile?

[Heke1959]

@CASJ25 I heard she say "si alla":)