Vaitupu dialect

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The Vaitupu dialect is a regional variety of the Tuvaluan language spoken primarily on the island of Vaitupu in Tuvalu.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Vaitupu dialect canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of Tuvaluan
closelyRelatedTo Nukulaelae dialect
surface form: Funafuti dialect

Nukufetau dialect
country Tuvalu
countryOfOrigin Tuvalu
hasAncestor Proto-Austronesian
surface form: Proto-Austronesian language

Proto-Polynesian language
hasLanguageStatus regional dialect without separate official status
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between long and short vowels
five-vowel system
hasTypology SVO word order
ISO639-3 tvl
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Polynesian languages
partOf Polynesian cultural area
Tuvaluan dialect continuum
region Vaitupu atoll
sharesISOCodeWith Tuvaluan language
spokenBy inhabitants of Vaitupu
spokenIn Pacific Ocean region
Tuvalu
Vaitupu
subdivisionOf Tuvaluan language
usedAlongside English language
usedIn everyday communication on Vaitupu
local oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ellicean languages hasMember Vaitupu dialect
Tuvaluan language hasDialects Vaitupu dialect