Definitions

1. Tokelauan is a Polynesian language closely related to Tuvaluan.
2. Tokelauan is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,700 people on the atolls of Tokelau.
3. Tokelauan is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Samoic family of Polynesian languages.
4. Tokelauan is intelligible with Tuvaluan, the main language of the neighbouring island realm of Tuvalu.
5. Tokelauan is intelligible with Tuvaluan, the main language of the neighbouring island realm of Tuvalu, and uses Samoan literature.

Polynesian

1. Polynesian has a primary split between a western 'Samoic-Outlier' branch containg Samoan, Tokelauan, etc.

Samoan

1. Tuvaluan is historically related to Polynesian Outlier languages in Melanesia, and is a more distant relative of Samoan and Tokelauan.
2. The inhabitants speak Nukuoro language, which is closely related to the Kapingamarangi language and is a Polynesian dialect related to Samoan and Tokelauan.

Tongan

1. For example, Masisi (a star name) in Tongan is cognate with Matiti in Tokelauan; siale (Gardenia taitensis) in Tongan and tiare in Tahitian.

Austronesian Language

1. Tokelauan is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Samoic family of Polynesian languages.

Zealand

1. Only 17% of Cook Islands Maori were able to speak their own language, and one in four Tokelauans born in New Zealand could speak Tokelauan.

Spoken

1. The major religion is the Congregational Christian Church and the main language is Tokelauan, but English is also spoken.

Austronesian

1. Tokelauan belongs to the Polynesian sub-group of Austronesian.

Language

1. It is closely related to Tokelauan language.

Tuvaluan

1. Tokelauan is intelligible with Tuvaluan, the main language of the neighbouring island realm of Tuvalu.
2. Tokelauan is mutually intelligible with Tuvaluan, which is the language of the neighboring Tuvalu islands.
3. Tokelauan is a Polynesian language closely related to Tuvaluan.

Tokelau

1. Tokelauan is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,700 people on the atolls of Tokelau.

Tokelauan

1. Tokelau (territory of New Zealand): From the Tokelauan "North" or "Northern", describing the islands' location relative to Samoa.
2. In addition to being spoken in Tokelau, Tokelauan is spoken in New Zealand, where more than 2,900 Tokelau expatriates reside.
3. Tokelau has fewer than 1,500 Polynesian inhabitants in three villages who speak Tokelauan and English.

Categories

1. Water > Islands > Atolls > Tokelau
2. Tuvaluan
3. Main Language
4. Austronesian Language Spoken
5. Three Villages
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