Languages of Wallis and Futuna
French Overseas Territory of Wallis and Futuna. 15,000. National or official language: French. Literacy rate: 95%. Information mainly from N. Besnier 1992; B. Biggs 1980; S. Wurm and S. Hattori 1981. The number of individual languages listed for Wallis and Futuna is 3. Of those, all are living languages.
| French | [fra]
120 in Wallis and Futuna (Johnstone 1993).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
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| Futuna, East | [fud]
3,600 in Wallis and Futuna (1987). Population total all countries: 6,600. Futuna Island. Also in New Caledonia.
Alternate names: Futunian.
Dialects: Not intelligible with Wallisian [wls] (East Uvean).
Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Futunic
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| Wallisian | [wls]
9,620 in Wallis and Futuna (2000). Population total all countries: 29,800. Original home is Uvea Island. Also in Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu.
Alternate names: East Uvean, Uvean, Wallisien.
Dialects: Some dialect divergence between Wallis Islands and New Caledonia. Not functionally intelligible with Tongan [ton].
Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, East Uvean-Niuafo’ou
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