21674 Niue 1000-9999 approximately 21,700 "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)." On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean Off 7300 1000-9999