Tokelauan
3.500 speakers
0 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: tkl
Tokelauan is a Polynesian language with about 1,600 speakers in Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand to the north of Samoa and east of Tuvalu consisting of three coral atolls: Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu. There are also about 3,000 speakers of Tokelau in New Zealand, and a few more in the Swains Islands near American Samoa.
Tokelauan is used mainly as an oral language and there is little written material in the language, although there is a Tokelauan translation of the New Testament.
Tokelauan and Tuvaluan and more or less mutually intelligible, and Tokelauan is also closely related to Samoan and the Niuafo'ou language of Tonga.
source
wikipedia.org, omniglot.com & ethnologue.com
Health
Severely endangered