 the Cook Islands Maori dialectal variant of Rarotonga).According to the New Zealand Maori anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa who spent a few days on Rakahanga in the years 1920, ""the language is a pleasing dialect and has closer affinities with [New Zealand] Maori than with the dialects of Tongareva, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands""

Rakahanga-Manihiki are two different islands but the culture is one.They are two islands 25 miles apart from each other and is located in the south pacific.