Talk:Tuvaluan language
This level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Untitled
What does "Nuclear Polynesian language" mean? -- RickK
- "Nuclear" is a subfamily of the Polynesian languages; I believe "Polynesian Outlier languages" is a nother one. See the taxobox at Maori language, for example. -- pne17:27, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Tuvaluan is a Nuclear Polynesian language of the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It has common words with other Polynesian languages"
This is true for all Polynesian languages. It would be interesting to point out differences rather than similarities. Apokrif 14:13, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 September 2020 and 18 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lauraz12345.
Above undated message substituted from
Infobox
I've added the infobox along the side. The info's from the Ethnologue website. It's my first box, feel free to spruce it up.--Stella luna 02:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Tuvaluan Scouting
Can someone render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Tuvaluan? Thanks! Chris 06:55, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Tuvaluan phonology
Niko Besnier (2000. Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. London: Routledge,
Articles
According to the article, Tuvaluan possesses three articles, not four. I don't know which theory of grammar the article follows, but "a zero article" is something that doesn't exists. Hence there are three, not four. You might as well say that languages without articles (Latin, Russian etc.) have any number of "zero articles". You might also say that languages, which possess a definite article but not an indefinite one have a "zero indefinite article". Am I the only one to think this is nonsense? All the best 85.220.22.139 (talk) 16:04, 10 August 2013 (UTC)