An Introduction to Tuvaluan

action adding adjective adverb already answer appear arrive beautiful becomes belonging better combination coming common consonant definite dialect directional dual eiloa English example exception expression fafine faipati faka fale fano gali galuega happened ikai indefinite article indicate Ioane Islands It's John konā language lengthened vowel macron mark maua meaning negative nofo NOTE nouns object particle past person personal pronouns plural possessive pronouns question refers represented Samoan seai seki sentence ship singular sound speak speaker speech started stress suffix syllable taimi takes taku Tefea tenā tenei tense marker thing tino toku tuku tupu tusi Tuvaluan Tuvaluan language usually vaka verb marker vowel whereas word written