Futunan language

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Futunan
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	map
ISO 639-3:	fud

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 ʻUvea 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.

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue page