Niuatoputapu language

Niuatoputapu
Native toTonga
Extinct19th century
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3nkp
nkp
Glottologniua1241

Niuatoputapu was the indigenous language of Niuatoputapu, Tonga. It was more closely related to Samoan than to Tongan. Sometime in the 18th or 19th century, it became extinct and its use was replaced by Tongan. Practically all knowledge of the Niuatoputapu language comes from a word list compiled by Jacob Le Maire in 1616.[1]