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Preferred term

tvlTuvalu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language of or closely related to the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It is more or less distantly related to all other Polynesian languages, such as Hawaiian, Maori, 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.

Entry terms

  • Tuvaluan language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tvl

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tvl

ISO 639-3 code

  • tvl

Notation

  • tvl

In other languages

  • tuvalu

    French

  • Tuvaluan
  • Elliceanisch

    German

  • Tuvaluische Sprache
  • tuvalu

    Italian

  • Lingua tuvaluana
  • tuvaluano

    Portuguese

  • Língua tuvaluana
  • tuvaluano

    Spanish

  • Idioma tuvaluano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tvl

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