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- Tokelauan
ISO 639-3 · tkltkl
Austronesian family
Tokelauan
Tokelau
Tokelauan is a language of the Ellicean branch (Austronesian), spoken in New Zealand and Tokelau. Wikidata counts about 3,300 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Polynesian language native to Tokelau”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tkl- Glottocode
toke1240- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 53 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
11levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tokelauan · Tokelau |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tokelau, Tokelauan language |
| All speakers | 3,300 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Tokelauan
The branches above Tokelauan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch220Central–Eastern Oceanicbranch44Central Pacificbranch38Polynesianbranch36Nuclear Polynesianbranch3ElliceanbranchtklTokelauanlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in New Zealand
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalmriMāoriAustronesian · 213,8496b · ThreatenedtonTonganAustronesian · 186,0101 · NationalglaScottish GaelicIndo-European · 57,0002 · ProvincialnzsNew Zealand Sign Languageunclassified · 20,2006b · ThreatenedpihPitcairn-Norfolkunclassified · 5326a · VigorousrrmMorioriAustronesian