Tuvaluan Language (tvl)

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Also Known As: Ellice,Tuvalu,Ellicean,Tuvaluan


Description:

Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language of the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages, such as Hawaiian, Māori, Tahitian, Samoan, 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. There are about 13,000 Tuvaluan speakers worldwide. Like all other Polynesian languages, Tuvaluan descends from an ancestral language, which historical linguists refer to as "Proto-Polynesian," which was spoken around 3000 years ago. The sound system of Tuvaluan consists of five vowels (i, e, a, o, u) and 10 or 11 consonants (p, t, k, m, n, g, f, v, s, h, l), depending on the dialect. All sounds, including consonants, come in short and long forms, which are contrastive.

There are four possible articles in Tuvaluan: definite singular te, indefinite singular se or he (depending on the dialect), definite plural zero form, and indefinite plural ne or ni (depending on the dialect). The verb can be either clause-initial or clause-medial,..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Tuvaluan Language Speakers

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Rosetta Document Collection

Genesis Translation:
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Overview

Main Country: Tuvalu
Spoken In:

Countries: Tuvalu Regions: Oceania

ISO 639-3 Code: tvl

Classification Taxonomy

Malayo-Polynesian Group

  Central-Eastern Group

    Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group

      Oceanic Group

        Central-Eastern Oceanic Group

          Remote Oceanic Group

            Central Pacific Group

              East Fijian-Polynesian Group

                Polynesian Group

                  Nuclear Polynesian Group

                    Samoic-Outlier Group

                      Ellicean Group

                        Tuvaluan Language