Polynesia Oceanic ethnic group Polynesian http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C43405 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesians https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042001 An ethnolinguistic group of closely related peoples who are native to Polynesia (islands in the Polynesian Triangle), an expansive region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and form part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group with an Urheimat in Taiwan. They speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily of the Austronesian language family. Polynesians Polynesian Indigenous person