Tuvaluan language

Tuvaluan
Tuvaluan
Te Ggana Tuuvalu
Native to	Tuvalu, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand
Native speakers	11,000 in Tuvalu (2015); 2,000 in New Zealand (2013 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian Ellicean Tuvaluan; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Official status
Official language in	Tuvalu
Language codes
ISO 639-2	tvl
ISO 639-3	tvl
Glottolog	tuva1244
ELP	Tuvaluan
IETF	tvl-TV
	Tuvaluan is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Recording of Paulo, a speaker of Tuvaluan

Tuvaluan (/ˌtuːvəˈluːən/),^[2] often called Tuvalu, is a Polynesian language closely related to the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages, such as Hawaiian, Māori, Tahitian, Samoan, Tokelauan and Tongan, and most closely related to the languages spoken on the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia and Northern and Central Melanesia. Tuvaluan has borrowed considerably from Samoan, the language of Christian missionaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[3]^[4]

The population of Tuvalu is approximately 10,645 people (2017 Mini Census),^[5] but there are estimated to be more than 13,000 Tuvaluan speakers worldwide. In 2015 it was estimated that more than 3,500 Tuvaluans live in New Zealand, with about half that number born in New Zealand and 65 percent of the Tuvaluan community in New Zealand is able to speak Tuvaluan.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Tuvaluan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Bauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Edinburgh.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Ager, Simon. "Tuvaluan (Te 'gana Tūvalu)". Omniglot. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
^ Munro, D. (1996). "The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific". In Munro, D.; Thornley, A. (eds.). Samoan Pastors in Tuvalu, 1865-1899. Suva, Fiji, Pacific Theological College and the University of the South Pacific. pp. 124–157.
^ Ministry of Education and Sports; Ministry of Finance and Economic Development; United Nations System in the Pacific Islands (April 2013). "Tuvalu: Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework – Improving Quality of Education" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
^ "Tuvalu Language Week kicks off today". TV3. MediaWorks TV. 27 September 2015. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[e25-1] Tuvaluan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Bauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Edinburgh.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[Omniglot-3] Ager, Simon. "Tuvaluan (Te 'gana Tūvalu)". Omniglot. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

[MD-4] Munro, D. (1996). "The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific". In Munro, D.; Thornley, A. (eds.). Samoan Pastors in Tuvalu, 1865-1899. Suva, Fiji, Pacific Theological College and the University of the South Pacific. pp. 124–157.

[MDG-5] Ministry of Education and Sports; Ministry of Finance and Economic Development; United Nations System in the Pacific Islands (April 2013). "Tuvalu: Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework – Improving Quality of Education" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2013.

[TV3-6] "Tuvalu Language Week kicks off today". TV3. MediaWorks TV. 27 September 2015. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

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Tuvaluan
Te Ggana Tuuvalu
Native to	Tuvalu, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand
Native speakers	11,000 in Tuvalu (2015)^[1] 2,000 in New Zealand (2013 census)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian Ellicean Tuvaluan
Writing system	Latin script
Official status
Official language in	Tuvalu
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`tvl`
ISO 639-3	`tvl`
Glottolog	`tuva1244`
ELP	Tuvaluan
IETF	`tvl-TV`
Tuvaluan is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.