Nukumanu

NUQ

vigorous

Alternate Names: Tasman

Dialects: Nukumanu. Tryon (2001) says distinct from Takuu , (Nukuria) in Papua New Guinea and Ontong Java , in Solomon Islands. Speakers have contact with Luangiua.

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Oceanic

Central-Eastern Oceanic

Remote Oceanic

Central Pacific

East Fijian-Polynesian

Polynesian

Nuclear

Samoic-Outlier

Ellicean

Demographics: 700 (2003 SIL).

Language Use: Not endangered (2000 D. Tryon).

Language Development: Videos. NT: 2013.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea