Loimata Iupati

Loimata Iupati is a senior administrator and educator from the Pacific territory of Tokelau.

Iupati is the resident director of education of Tokelau. This is geographically a series of Pacific atolls which collectively form a territory of New Zealand.

Iupati is currently translating the Bible from English into Tokelauan. This language is a Polynesian one, akin to Samoan and intelligible to speakers of Tuvaluan.

External links

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tkl
Published extract from Tokelauan Gospels http://pub29.bravenet.com/forum/2471256831/fetch/604819/

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