Nui is one of the 9 "districts" (3 of them consist of 1 isle, 6 are atolls with several isles) of the Oceanian realm of Tuvalu. It has a population (2002 census) of 548. Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but sometimes including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ...
Geography
Nui consists of at least 21 islets. These are:
Fenua Tapu (isle)
Meang
Motupuakaka
Pakantou
Piliaieve
Pongalei
Talalolae
Tokinivae
Unimai
and at least 12 other islands
The biggest, most southern and most eastern island is Fenua Tapu, which is followed by Meang (most western isle), Tokinivae, Pongalei, Talalolae, Pakantou, Unimai, Piliaieve and Motupuakaka. There is at least one island inhabited, which is Fenua Tapu, where the village is with the neighbourhoods of Fenua Tapu and Tanrake.
Language
The people of Nui speak Gilbertese, the language of Kiribati and Tuvaluan, the official language of Tuvalu, because the ancestors of Nui came from Kiribati. Gilbertese or Kiribati (sometimes Kiribatese, a mixture of both) is a language from the Austronesian family, part of the Oceanian branch and of the Nuclear Micronesian subbranch. ...
Nui is one of the 9 "districts" (3 of them consist of 1 isle, 6 are atolls with several isles) of the Oceanian realm of Tuvalu.
It has a population (2002 census) of 548.
The people of Nui speak Gilbertese, the language of Kiribati and Tuvaluan, the official language of Tuvalu, because the ancestors of Nui came from Kiribati.
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