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Tuvaluan language

Tuvaluan is a Nuclear Polynesian language of the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It has common words with other Polynesian languages; for instance te Atua means "God" in both Tuvaluan and Maori. There are about 11000 Tuvaluan speakers worldwide.


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Ethnologue

References

BESNIER Niko (2000), Tuvaluan: a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific, Routledge



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