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Tokelauan: Kua hau te tino English: 'A man has arrived' or 'The man has arrived' [8] (Notice how te in Tokelauan has been translated to both a and the in English.) Tokelauan: Vili ake oi k'aumai he toki English: 'Do run and bring me an axe' [8] The use of he and te in Tokelauan are reserved for when describing a singular noun. [8]
In 1996 Iupati was part of a team appointed to translate the Bible into Tokelauan. [1] This language is a Polynesian one, akin to Samoan and intelligible to speakers of Tuvaluan . In 1990, Iupati was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal .
English one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Proto-Polynesian *tasi *rua *tolu *fa *rima *ono *fitu *walu *hiwa *haŋafulu Tongan: taha ua tolu fa nima ono fitu valu hiva hongofulu Niuean: taha ua tolu fā lima ono fitu valu hiva hogofulu Samoan: tasi lua tolu fa lima ono fitu valu iva sefulu Tokelauan: tahi lua tolu fa lima ono ...
Since 2006, there has been growth in the proportion of the Tokelau population who can speak languages other than the country's native tongue. In contrast, the proportion of the total population able to speak Tokelauan has dropped, from 96.1% (in 2006) to 94.1% (in 2011).
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About 84% of inhabitants are of wholly or partly Tokelauan ethnicity; people of Samoan ethnicity make up 6.7% of the population, and Tuvaluans 2.8%. [86] The main language—spoken by over 90% of inhabitants—is Tokelauan, but almost 60% also speak English. The less than 1,500 Polynesian inhabitants live in three villages.
The Tokelauans are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tokelau, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, who share the Tokelauan Polynesian culture, history and language. The group's home islands are a dependent territory of New Zealand. 77% of Tokelau's population of 1,650 claims Tokelauan ancestry, [1] while 8,676 Tokelauans live in New ...