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Tuvaluan (/ˌtuːvəˈluːən/), often called Tuvalu, is a Polynesian language closely related to the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. It is more or less distantly...- in American Samoa. It is closely related to Tuvaluan and is related to Samoan and other Polynesian languages. Tokelauan has a co-official status with English...
- Ontong Java, Takuu, and Tuvaluan. Sikaiana uses nine different consonants which are reflexes of the Proto-Polynesian language. The consonants include...
and therefore word order is a choice between actor and patient and depends quite heavily on the language style and context. Word order is frequently modified...- Gemination (category Articles containing Tuvaluan-language text)layang-layang /lajaŋ lajaŋ/ > /lːajaŋ/ 'kite' The Polynesian language Tuvaluan allows for word-initial geminates, such as mmala 'overcooked'. In English...
languages. Like the languages of the Philippines, the Sama–Bajaw languages in the Sulu tend to be verb-initial. However, in most languages word order...
tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...- Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga. It has around 187,000 speakers. It uses the word order verb–subject–object...
- Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar. The standard variety, called Official Malagasy, is an official language of Madagascar...
participants. The word order has a strong tendency to be verb-initial. In contrast, the more innovative Indonesian-type languages, which are particularly...- inaccurately called "passive", is the basic and most common word order.[citation needed] The Malay language has many words borrowed from Arabic (in particular...
haka. The English word Maori is a borrowing from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori. In New Zealand, the Māori language is often referred to...- Papuan language. Notably, Tobati displays a very rare object–subject–verb word order. Before a vowel realized as [ŋg], otherwise nasalizes the preceding vowel...
Modern Javanese usually employs SVO word order. However, Old Javanese sometimes had VSO and sometimes VOS word order. Even in Modern Javanese, archaic sentences...
non-low front vowels. Chamorro is a VSO or verb–subject–object language. However, the word order can be very flexible and change to SVO (subject-verb-object)...
Ilokano; /iːloʊˈkɑːnoʊ/; Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua...
Balinese script. The word for language, basa, in Balinese is a loanword from Old Javanese bhāṣa which came from the Sanskrit word भाषा bhāṣā, hence it...- vaka-Viti) is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language. The 2013 Constitution...
particles rather than inflecting the word itself. In terms of word order, most Formosan languages display verb-initial word order—VSO (verb-subject-object) or...
Solomon Islands and New Britain (various Meso-Melanesian languages). Word order in Oceanic languages is highly diverse, and is distributed in the following...
