Relationships among various languages within the Polynesian sub group have not attracted the same attention as the relation of the sub group itself to other subgroups within the Malayo-Polynesian or Austro nesian family. The concern linguistically (as well as culturally) has more often been with the origin of the Proto-Polynesian language and its speakers than with identifying the precise sequential relationship of each Polynesian language to the others by techniques of subgrouping. Even where linguistic relationships were thought to have been demonstrated their implications, when viewed in the light of other cultural or historical considerations, have often been open to misinterpretation. Thus there is reason to examine closely the more recent attempts at linguistic subgroup ing in Polynesia and to outline their implications for the prehistory of that area.
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