Tuvaluan is a Nuclear Polynesian language of the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It has common words with other Polynesian languages; for instance te Atua means "God" in both Tuvaluan and Maori. There are about 11000 Tuvaluan speakers worldwide.
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Ethnologue
References
BESNIER Niko (2000), Tuvaluan: a Polynesian language of the Central Pacific, Routledge
