Tokelauan is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,700 people on the atolls of Tokelau. It is a member of the Samoic family of Polynesian languages. It is, alongside English, the official language of Tokelau. In addition to the population of Tokelau, it is spoken by approximately 2,900 Tokelauan expatriates in New Zealand.

Loimata Iupati, the resident director of education, is translating the Bible from English into Tokelauan.

External links

• Ethnologue report on Tokelauan

Polynesian languages | Samoic languages | Austronesian languages

Tokelauische Sprache | Tokelaa lingvo | Idioma tokelauano | Tokelauan | Język tokelau | Tokelaun kieli | Tokelauanska