| Futunan | ||
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| Spoken in: | Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna and New Caledonia | |
| Total speakers: | 6,600 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian Polynesian Nuclear Samoic-Outlier Futunic Futunan |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | fud
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Futunan (native name: Fakafutuna) is the Polynesian language spoken on Futuna (and Alofi). Futuna is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity ( Collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) of For the former North American fur-trading district see New Caledonia (Canada, and for the Scottish colony in Panama see Darien scheme. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 351 million speakers The family of Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages is a branch of the Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages. The family of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (EMP languages is a subgroup of the Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages. The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages The over 200 Central-Eastern Oceanic languages form a branch of the Oceanic Language family within the Austronesian languages. The family of Remote Oceanic languages is a subgroup of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. The family of Central Pacific or Fijian-Polynesian languages is a branch of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages. The family of East Fijian-Polynesian languages is a subgroup of the Central Pacific languages. The Polynesian languages are a Language family spoken in the region known as Polynesia. Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian The Samoic languages are one of the primary classes of Polynesian languages, encompassing the Polynesian languages of Samoa, Tuvalu, American The Futunic languages are principally the languages of the Polynesian outliers of southeast Melanesia ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages An exonym (from Greek el ἔξω exo = out el ὄνομα onoma = name is a name for a place that is not used within that place by the local The Polynesian languages are a Language family spoken in the region known as Polynesia. Futuna is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity ( Collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) of 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. Futuna-Aniwan is the Polynesian language spoken on the outlier islands of Futuna and Aniwa in Vanuatu. Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian islands which lie in geographic or political Melanesia and Micronesia. Futuna is an island in the Tafea province of Vanuatu. It is the easternmost island in the country Aniwa is a small island in the southernmost province of Tafea, Vanuatu. Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu ( French: République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu) is an Island
Although Futuna is geographically closer to Tonga than ʻUvea and farther from Sāmoa, it has the stronger Sāmoan characteristics in the language. The Kingdom of Tonga is an Archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean comprising 169 islands 36 of them inhabited stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 miles Wallis ( Uvea) is an Island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity ( Collectivité d'outre-mer Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands Archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean
According to Ethnologue, Fakafutuna is spoken by 3,600 on Futuna, as well as 3,000 migrant workers on New Caledonia. Ethnologue Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics a Christian For the former North American fur-trading district see New Caledonia (Canada, and for the Scottish colony in Panama see Darien scheme.
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