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Niuean is the language spoken by the people of Niue, a small island nation in the South Pacific that is part of the Polynesian language family. It matters as an important part of Niuean cultural identity and heritage, though like many indigenous Pacific languages, it faces challenges from the dominance of English and other larger languages.
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Niuean (/njuˈeɪən/; ko e vagahau Niuē) is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan and slightly more distantly to other Polynesian languages such as Māori, Samoan and Hawaiian. Together, Tongan and Niuean form the Tongic subgroup of the Polynesian languages. Niuean also has a number of influences from Samoan and Eastern Polynesian languages.
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