Niuatoputapu language

Niuatoputapu language
Tokelauan
Spoken in Tonga
Extinct 19th century
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nkp

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.


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