Early history
The area now called Kiribati has been inhabited by Micronesians speaking the same Oceanic language since sometime between 3000 BC[13] and AD 1300.[14] The area was not isolated; invaders from Tonga and Samoa, and from Fiji, later introduced Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively. Intermarriage tended to blur cultural differences and resulted in a significant degree of cultural homogenisation