Anuta language

11.61°S 169.85°E / -11.61; 169.85

Anuta
Native toSolomon Islands
RegionAnuta Island
Native speakers
(270 cited 1999)
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Polynesian
        • Futunic
          • Anuta
Language codes
ISO 639-3aud
Glottologanut1237
ELPAnuta

The Anuta language (or Anutan, locally te taranga paka-Anuta) is a Polynesian Outlier language from the island of Anuta in the Solomon Islands. It is closely related to the Tikopia language of the neighboring island of Tikopia, and it bears significant cultural influence from the island. The two languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, although Anutans can understand Tikopians better than the reverse.: 6 

Anuta is generally regarded as Nuclear Polynesian language, although it bears considerable Tongic influence.

In 1977, Richard Feinberg published a two-volume dictionary and basic grammar of the language.

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