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A fact from Niuean language appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that most of the 8,000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/April.

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Niuean Scouting

Can someone render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Niuean? Thanks! Chris 05:42, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Niuean language template

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Edit

--Amazonien (talk) 05:30, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism / accidental edits ?

The last sentence in the section "Syllable structure" reads: "They have a certain syllable in their that makes them so different". Was a word deleted after "their"? Or should that be "there"? Either way, it doesn't look like the line make much sense. 84.198.246.199 (talk) 23:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

percentage of speakers

This article says that in 1991 97.4% of the inhabitants spoke Niuean. The article on Niue using The World Factbook (CIA) says 11% are unilingual English speakers. The Factbook page doesn't indicate when this stat was worked out, although the page itself was updated at least in 2017. If 11% are unilingual English speakers, then at most 89% speak Nieuan (the article on the country indicates some "other languages").--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:14, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Hiatus"

is the section on Hiatus relevant to Nieuan? If so how? If not, doesn't belong here. It looks like something lifted from an intro book on phonetics.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:18, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"ko e vagahau Niuē"

Does this simply mean "Niuean"? which is implied by its being simply placed after the word Niuean. Does it mean "the language of Niue"? Or "what the people of Niue speak"?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:20, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"the language of Niue" and "Niuean" refer to the same entity. The first is a more literal translation of ko e vagahau Niuē but the second one would be the usual way to refer to the language in English. pne (talk) 12:39, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]