ʻUvean (Fakaʻuvea in the vernacular) is the Polynesian language spoken on ʻUvea (also known Wallis Island), and it was therefore known as Wallisian in colonial times. The term East-Uvean is also used to distinguish it from the related Uvean spoken on the outlier island of Ouvéa (near New Caledonia), for which the term West-Uvean can be used. In fact Ouvean tradition holds that the latter island was colonised from ʻUvea in ancient times. Wallis (Uvea) is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French territory of Wallis and Futuna. ... Ouvéa from space, November 1990 Ouvea may refer to: Ouvéa, an island in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia. ...

Although not considered by some to be a Tongic language, ʻUvean is in fact quite close to Niuafoʻouan and Tongan, the island having been a part of the Tuʻi Tongan empire for many centuries. Tongic is a subgroup of the Polynesian languages. ... The Tui Tonga Empire was a powerful Oceanian empire. ...

alphabet

The standard 5 vowels: a, e, i, o, u, with their lengtened variants: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū.

The consonants: f, g (always pronounced as ŋ (ng)), h, k, l, m, n, s (rare, usually from foreign words), t, v, ʻ.

The ʻ is the glottal stop (see also okina), known in ʻUvean as fakamoga (belonging to the throat, or throatmaker)). Although nowadays taught at schools, the older generation never writes it. Essentially it has neither official nor traditional value, and can be written with straight, curly or inverted curly apostrophes. Likewise the macron (ʻUvean: fakaloa (long maker)) receives the same stepmotherly treatment. The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. ... The glottal stop is used in many Polynesian languages and known under various names as for instance: // Encoding and displaying the Polynesian glottal Old conventions In plain ASCII the glottal is sometimes represented by the apostrophe character (), ASCII value 39 in decimal and 27 in hexadecimal, which in most fonts... A macron (from Gr. ...

For example: Mālō te maʻuli (hello)

links

• http://www.uvea-mo-futuna.com/article.php3?id_article=937 beginners course in ʻUvean.