Background of Language
Tuvalu, a Polynesian island has native speakers of this language.
What island is Tuvaluan spoken in?
How many consonants are in Tuvaluan.
What is 10 or 11?
The number of possible articles in Tuvaluan.
What is three?
The causative prefix in Tuvaluan.
What is -faka?
A noun phrase or prepositional phrase that acts as a adverb in Tuvaluan.
What is an oblique phrase?
Tuvaluan language family
What is the Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Language Family.
i, u, e, o, a.
What are the vowels of Tuvaluan?
Reduplication, a phonological process in Tuvalu.
What is the repetition of the first syllable of a word to indicate stress.
Tuvaluan morphemes/morphology
What is no inflectional or derivational morphemes, instead Tuvaluan uses markers to indicate stress, tense, case, etc.
The most favored part of speech in Tuvaluan.
What is a verb?
Hawaiian, Malay, Javanese, Tagalog.
What are other languages in the language family of Tuvalu?
m, n, p, t, k, f, v, s, l, h, ŋ.
What are the consonants of Tuvaluan?
The suffix that forms nouns from verbs.
What is -ga?
Tuvaluan syllables
The number of quoted speech styles in Tuvaluan.
What is 2?
The culture, Polynesian.
What is the cultural majority in Tuvalu?
Indicates stress, pluralization, case, and tense
What are markings?
Ergative construction
A phonological processes that is common in Tuvalu that can also work for SVO
Tuvaluan present tense marker.
What is -e?
Tuvaluan's typical word order.
What is Verb, Subject, Object?
Languages have been in contact and influenced Tuvalu.
What is English, Samoan, and Gilbertese?
Every vowel sounded separately.
What is no diphthongs?
The articulation of a consonant for a longer time than normal.
What is gemination?
The past tense marker for Tuvalu.
What is the marker -ne?
What is direct quoted speech and indirectly quoted speech?