Native to Tonga ISO 639-3 nkp Glottolog niua1241 | Extinct 19th century Linguist list nkp | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Polynesian
Samoan–Tokelauan ?
Niuatoputapu | ||
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.
References
Niuatoputapu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA