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ALSO KNOWN AS		Niuean, "Niuefekai"
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Polynesian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		niu
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,990
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"2,030 in Niue (1998)."

PLACES: Cook Islands; New Zealand; Tonga; Niue;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,941
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
14,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7300
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
approximately 21,700
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The island of Niue has fewer than 1,700 inhabitants, while the largest number of Niueans, just under 20,000, live in New Zealand and are New Zealand-born (Statistics New Zealand 2002). The 2001 New Zealand Census reports that only 28 percent of Niueans resident in New Zealand can converse in the Niuean language and research has indicated that most of these are older and Niue-bom (Bell, Davis, and Starks 2000; Starks et al. 2003)."

DATE OF INFO: 2000-2003

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Niue; New Zealand

	June		1	2006	On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean	191-205		Online	University of Hawai'i Press	Oceanic Linguistics	45		http://www.jstor.org/stable/4499952	Diane Massam, and Donna Starks, and Ofania Ikiua	Diane Massam, Donna Starks and Ofania Ikiua. 2006. "On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean." In Oceanic Linguistics, 45: 191-205. University of Hawai'i Press. Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4499952.		approximately 21,700	7300	2000-2003	1000-9999	"The island of Niue has fewer than 1,700 inhabitants, while the largest number of Niueans, just under 20,000, live in New Zealand and are New Zealand-born (Statistics New Zealand 2002). The 2001 New Zealand Census reports that only 28 percent of Niueans resident in New Zealand can converse in the Niuean language and research has indicated that most of these are older and Niue-bom (Bell, Davis, and Starks 2000; Starks et al. 2003)."	English	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Niue; New Zealand
		3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing			Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		14,000		10000-99999			Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		-19.0491,-169.8706
0199255911				2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures		Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer		Oxford University Press			New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.										-19.05,-170.116666667
					World Oral Literature Project								http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			7,941		1000-9999			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)		M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		7,990		1000-9999	"2,030 in Niue (1998)."		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Cook Islands; New Zealand; Tonga; Niue;

Niue

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,990

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,941

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

14,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7300

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Niue

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Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,990

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,941

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

14,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7300

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