population of 1,650 claims Tokelauan ancestry, while 8,676 Tokelauans live in New Zealand. A small number also live in Samoa. The Tokelauan language is part of...
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percent in 1996. Comparably, a meager 29 percent of New Zealand-born Tokelauans reported being able to speak the language, compared to the 71 percent...
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Tokelau (category Articles containing Tokelauan-language text)
Tokelauans, and the major ethnic group is Polynesian; it has no recorded minority groups. About 84% of inhabitants are of wholly or partly Tokelauan ethnicity;...
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practices of the island nation of Tokelau. The original food crops of the Tokelauans were coconut (niu), pandanus (fala), noni (nonu), dyer's fig (mati) and...
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Article (grammar) (section Tokelauan)
individuals) with some purpose in mind. When using a definite article in Tokelauan language, unlike in some languages like English, if the speaker is speaking...
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again in the future; the leader of the largest group of overseas Tokelauans (the Tokelauan community in the Hutt Valley in New Zealand) Henry Joseph called...
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(Easter Island), Samoans (Samoa and American Samoa), Tahitians (Tahiti), Tokelauans (Tokelau), Niueans (Niue), Cook Islands Māori (Cook Islands), Tongans...
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territory, but is administered by a council of three elders (one from each Tokelauan atoll). The Ross Dependency is New Zealand's territorial claim in Antarctica...
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Olivia Foa'i (category Tokelauan musicians)
songwriting in the Tokelauan language. Foaʻi was born in New Zealand in the mid-1990s, and she grew up in Auckland. She is of Tokelauan, Tuvaluan, and British...
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Alapati Tavite (category Articles containing Tokelauan-language text)
Afioga Aliki Faipule Alapati Tavite is a Tokelauan politician who is the current Ulu-o-Tokelau since March 2024. The Ulu serves as the dependent territory's...
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Te Vaka (category Tokelauan musicians)
Foaʻi. Foaʻi was born in Western Samoa, to a Tokelauan father and a Tuvaluan mother, and raised in a Tokelauan community in New Zealand. He has said that...
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United Nations that his country had no wish to be decolonized, and that Tokelauans had opposed the idea of decolonization ever since the first visit by UN...
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Literacy in Tokelau (section Tokelauan reading)
2011, the Tokelauan Census for the first time asked a series of questions about reading and writing skills. As of 2011, less than 1% of Tokelauans are unable...
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Quiripi Unami Wiyot Austronesian Chamorro Hawaiian Refaluwasch Samoan Tokelauan Caddoan Arikara Caddo Wichita Kitsai Chinookan Kathlamet Tsinúk Upper...
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Polynesian voyagers and later conquered by Tokelauans from Fakaofo. In 1856, while populated by Tokelauans, Swains Island was settled by the American...
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Swains Island (category Articles containing Tokelauan-language text)
with the aim of establishing a copra production operation.: 23 Many Tokelauans abandoned the island at that point due to violence from the westerners...
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Niuean Norfuk Palauan Pitkern Rapa Nui Rotuman Samoan Spanish Tok Pisin Tokelauan Tongan Tuvaluan Time zones UTC+9 (Papua, Palau) to UTC–6 (Easter Island)...
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Nukuoro Ontong Java Sikaiana Takuu Tuvaluan Samoic Niuatoputapu † Samoan Tokelauan Eastern Austral Cook Islands Māori Hawaiian Mangareva Māori Moriori †...
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Turkic → Tofa Russia (Tofalariya) Christianity Tokelauans Austronesian → Malayo-Polynesian → Tokelauan Tokelau Christianity → Congregationalism Tongans...
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two-thirds majority was required for the proposal to succeed. The majority of Tokelauans reside in New Zealand, and were ineligible to vote in the referendum,...
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Nukuoro Ontong Java Sikaiana Takuu Tuvaluan Samoic Niuatoputapu † Samoan Tokelauan Eastern Austral Cook Islands Māori Hawaiian Mangareva Māori Moriori †...
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percent in 1996. Comparably, a meager 29 percent of New Zealand-born Tokelauans reported being able to speak the language, compared to the 71 percent...
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Uvean–Niuafo'ou languages Ellicean languages Futunic languages Pukapuka Samoan Tokelauan Eastern Polynesian Rapa Nui Central Eastern Polynesian Rapa Marquesic...
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Nukuoro Ontong Java Sikaiana Takuu Tuvaluan Samoic Niuatoputapu † Samoan Tokelauan Eastern Austral Cook Islands Māori Hawaiian Mangareva Māori Moriori †...
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score was written by Mancina. The lyrics are in English, Samoan, and the Tokelauan language. The soundtrack peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. In...
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Atafu (category Articles containing Tokelauan-language text)
that time. He named the island "Duke of York's island". According to Tokelauan oral tradition, Atafu was established by a man named Tonuia and his wife...
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including Olivia Foa'i and Matatia Foa'i. He composed the Samoan and Tokelauan language songs Logo te Pate, An Innocent Warrior and We Know the Way (English...
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Nukumanu Takuu Nuguria Kapingamarangi Nukuoro Pukapukan Samoic Samoan Tokelauan Niuatoputapu † Eastern Hawaiian Marquesan Mangarevan Tahitian Austral...
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Politics of Tokelau (category Articles containing Tokelauan-language text)
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The current head of government (Tokelauan: Ulu-o-Tokelau) is Alapati Tavite, who presides over the Council for the...
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2009, 56 Tokelauans called Quitline, a telephone service which helps smokers end their addiction to cigarettes. The same number of Tokelauans called Quitline...
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