| Your
first name |
Betty |
| Your
last name |
Ickes |
| Preferred
name(s) of your language |
Tokelau |
| Alternative
names |
|
| Language
classification |
|
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian,
Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic,
Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear,
Samoic-Outlier, Tokelauan |
|
| Geographic
areas where spoken |
Central Pacific, diaspora in New Zealand, Samoa, Hawai'i, West Coast U.S. |
| Approximate
number of monolingual speakers |
? |
| Approximate
number of fluent speakers |
?1,405 in Tokelau (2004). Population total all countries: 3,242. |
| Other
languages spoken in area/country |
English |
| Official language(s)
in your country |
Tokelau, English |
| What language(s) did
you use at school as a child? |
Samoan, English |
| What language(s) is
used by teachers today? |
English |
| Do
the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your
language? |
no |
| If
you answered yes to the above question, please specify |
|
| Does
you language have a widely accepted writing system? |
yes, there is a standardized alphabet/orthography
*The people of Nukunonu (and descendants of Nukunonu families in the
diaspora), one of the four atolls of Tokelau have not accepted the
standardized alphabet/orthography and continue to use their own form.
Ex: the Nukunonu dialect uses the diagraph "wh" in place of
the letter "f". |
| If
you answered yes, what materials are written? |
dictionary,
history book, children's stories, official government documents,
government website, and a Bible translation project that began in 1992.
|
| NUMBERS |
|
| 1 |
tahi |
| 2 |
lua |
| 3 |
tolu |
| 4 |
fa |
| 5 |
lima |
| 6 |
ono |
| 7 |
fitu |
| 8 |
valu |
| 9 |
iva |
| 10 |
hefulu |
|
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