Complex sentence: Pukapukan is considered by scholars and speakers alike to be a distinct language more closely related to Sāmoan and TokelauanIthan Cook Islands Māori.t belongs to the Samoic subgroup of the Polynesian language family.
Split into simpler sentences: Pukapukan is considered by scholars and speakers alike to be a distinct language more closely related to Sāmoan and Tokelauan than Cook Islands Māori. It belongs to the Samoic subgroup of the Polynesian language family.