Endangered Languages Project - Tuvaluan

Tuvaluan

^{[aka Ellice, Ellicean, Tuvalu]}

Classification: Austronesian

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Ellice, Ellicean, Tuvalu
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Polynesian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tvl
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		North Tuvaluan South Tuvaluan
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific” . Niko Besnier (2000) London & New York: Routledge

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~9,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are several small communities of speakers in Fiji and Kiribati

DOMAINS OF USE
TRANSMISSION

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
13,051
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
13,080
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
10,700 in Tuvalu (1998).

MORE ON VITALITY

Vigorous

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Official language

PLACES: Fiji; Nauru; Kiribati; New Zealand; Tuvalu;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Tuvalu: 7 of the 9 inhabited islands.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-8.5,179.166666667

COORDINATES

-8.5049,179.187

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press