Futunan language

Futunan language

language
name=Futunan
region=Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna and New Caledonia
speakers=6,600
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central-Eastern
fam4=Eastern
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=Polynesian
fam11=Nuclear
fam12=Samoic-Outlier
fam13=Futunic
iso2=map|iso3=fud|notice=nonotice

Futunan (native name: "Fakafutuna") is the Polynesian language spoken on Futuna (and Alofi). The term East-Futunan is also used to distinguish it from the related Futunan (West-Futunan, Futuna-Aniwan) spoken on the outlier islands of Futuna and Aniwa in Vanuatu.

Although Futuna is geographically closer to Tonga than okinaUvea and farther from Sāmoa, it has the stronger Sāmoan characteristics in the language.

According to Ethnologue, Fakafutuna is spoken by 3,600 on Futuna, as well as 3,000 migrant workers on New Caledonia.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=fud Ethnologue page]


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