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Rotuman also referred to as Rotunan Rutuman or Fäeag Rotuma is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous people of the South Pacific island group of Rotuma an island with a Polynesian-influenced culture that was incorporated as a dependency into the Colony of Fiji in 1881. Classification of Rotuman is difficult due to the large number of loan words from Samoan and Tongan as a result of much cultural exchange over the history of the Pacific.