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Tokelauan (Te Gagana Tokelau)
Native to: Tokelau, Swains Island (American Samoa, United States)
Native speakers: (1,400 in Tokelau cited 1987) 17 in Swains Island, 2,100 elsewhere, mostly New Zealand (2006)
Language family: Austronesian

is a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and on Swains Island (or Olohega) in American Samoa. It is closely related to Tuvaluan and is related to Samoan and other Polynesian languages. Tokelauan has a co-official status with English in Tokelau. There are approximately 4,260 speakers of Tokelauan, of whom 2,100 live in New Zealand, 1,400 in Tokelau, and 17 in Swains Island. "Tokelau" means "north-northeast".

Loimata Iupati, Tokelau's resident Director of Education, has stated that he is in the process of translating the Bible from English into Tokelauan. Tokelauan was a commonly spoken language until about twenty years ago.[when?] Of the 4600 people who speak the language, 1600 of them live in the three atolls of Tokelau – Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo. Approximately 3000 people in New Zealand speak Tokelauan, and the rest of the known Tokelauan speakers are spread across Australia, Hawaii, and the West Coast of the United States. The Tokelauan language closely resembles its more widely spoken and close genealogical relative, Samoan; the two maintain a degree of mutual intelligibility

LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelauan_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau
https://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/
https://omniglot.com/writing/tokelauan.htm
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/tokelauan.htm

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