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Niuean /njuːˈeɪən/ (Niuean: ko e vagahau Niuē) is a Polynesian language belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan and slightly more distantly to other Polynesian languages such as Māori Sāmoan and Hawaiian. Together Tongan and Niuean form the Tongic subgroup of the Polynesian languages. Niuean also has a number of influences from Samoan and Eastern Polynesian languages.

ISO 639-2 code
niu
ISO 639-3 code
niu
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Polynesian languages, Tongic languages, Oceanic languages
spoken in
Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, New Zealand

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