Tokelau Languages

Description
The official Languages of Tokelu are Tokelauan and English. Most residents are multilingual, but Tokelauan is spoken by 88% of the residents. Of the 4600 people who speak the language, 1600 of them live in the three atolls of Tokelau – Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo. The rest live in New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and the West Coast of the United States.

The Tokelauan Language:
 * is a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and on Swains Island (or Olohega) in American Samoa
 * is closely related to Tuvaluan and is related to Samoan and other Polynesian languages
 * has approximately 4,260 speakers - of whom 2,100 live in New Zealand, 1,400 in Tokelau, 956 in Australia and 17 in Swains Island
 * was the language of day-to-day affairs in Tokelau until at least the 1990s
 * closely resembles its more widely spoken and close genealogical relative, Samoan; the two maintain a degree of mutual intelligibility.

Different Languages Spoken on Tokelau
 * Tokelauan 88.1%
 * English 48.6%,
 * Samoan 26.7%,
 * Tuvaluan 11.2%,
 * Kiribati 1.5%,
 * other 2.8%,
 * none 2.8%,
 * unspecified 0.8% (2016 ests.)

note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census

Word List(s)

 * Tokelauan Useful Phrases (Omniglot)
 * Tokelauan Words and Phrases
 * Tokelauan Words and Phrases (Wikipedia)
 * Tokelauan Numbers

Alphabet and Pronunciation

 * Tokelauan Alphabet and Pronunciation (Omniglot)
 * Tokelauan Alphabet and Pronunciation (Wikipedia)
 * Tokelauan is written in the Latin script using only 15 letters: A, E, I, O, U, F, G, K, L, M, N, P, H, T, and V.
 * Its alphabet consists of 5 vowels: a (pronounced: /a/), e (pronounced: /e/), i (pronounced: /i/), o (pronounced: /o/) and u (pronounced: /u/); and 10 consonants: /p t k f v h m n ŋ l/, /ŋ/ spelled g

Language Aids and Dictionaries

 * Tokelau to English Dictionary (Glosbe)

Additional Resources

 * The Tokelauan Language 1841-1991
 * Tokelau (Wikitravel)
 * Tokelau