Niuatoputapu language
Niuatoputapu was the indigenous language of Niuatoputapu, Tonga. It was more closely related to Samoan than to Tongan. Sometime in the 18th or 19th century, it became extinct and its use was replaced by Tongan. Practically all knowledge of the Niuatoputapu language comes from a word list compiled by Jacob Le Maire in 1616.[2]
| Niuatoputapu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Tonga |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nkp |
nkp | |
| Glottolog | niua1241[1] |
Sample phrases
| English | Niuatoputapu |
|---|---|
| fish | ika |
| corals | kasoa |
| the | li |
| one | tasi |
| two | lua |
| three | tolu |
| five | lima |
| yam | ufi |
gollark: All channels are the right channel! Arbitrary categories should not constrain our discourse!
gollark: Racism.
gollark: There's a difference between "facebook eating exabytes of private data" and "allowing people to know who has an egg".
gollark: Works for me.
gollark: You should just demand that they tell you or be cast into the pits of hell.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Niuatoputapu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Niuatoputapu - Languages facts sheet by Niklas Jonsson", Niklas Jonsson, 16 December 1998
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