Talk:Tokelauan language

message: Well researched, the amount of information put inside is article is very informative making this a very strong draft! Although here are some points to work on:
* Visual Aids:  The article would really benefit from more visual aids such as a picture containing the Tokelauan Alphabet or a picture of what a macron (the examples in Orthography are too small to see) is for example.
*Emphasis on letters:  You may want to consider bolding, increasing the font size, italicizing, or using a combination of them to better distinguish the letters within the Orthography as grammatical ones.
But all in all, this article I think this article has a strong foundation. Nice.
JasperIshi (talk) 01:54, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review

message: The Silence - Thank you for your input! We'll try to keep all of our information short! 
Aarden - Thank you for your advice! We'll make sure to incorporate more of the linguistics concepts! We feel that the culture is important too, but we'll keep it short!
Lansings - Thank you! We'll try to organize it better! The information regarding the actual language is very hard to find, so we'll try our best!
Keleka11 - Thank you! We didn't even think to hyperlink them! We were too focused on trying to get our word count, but we'll do it by the time it's due!
Clmn3 - Oh shoot thank you for catching that! We'll definitely fix those number discrepancies!
 
~ Tokelauan Group; Braden, Corina, Josh, Rebecca   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshuahi (talk • contribs) 21:14, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review Responses

message: I am updating the Ethonolouge statics to the most current 2013.
JasperIshi (talk) 19:22, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnolouge

message: Can someone render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Tokelauan? Thanks! Chris 06:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tokelauan Scouting

message: This article needs a language infobox. Chris 05:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: infobox

message: If you are a native speaker of Tokelauan then you can help translate this template into your own language:
 Edit
--Amazonien (talk) 05:20, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tokelauan language template

message: This song ("Pate pate"), sung by both Te Vaka and Maruia, is (so I read) in Tokelauan.  As the song is moderately popular (in French Polynesia, at least), it may be worth mentioning here.  75.0.6.139 (talk) 10:05, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, evidently, most of Te Vaka's songs are in Tokelauan.  This is almost certainly worth mentioning here.  75.0.6.139 (talk) 10:07, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pate pate" 

message: Adelaar, Alexander, Andrew Pawley, and R. A Blust. Austronesian Historical Linguistics And Culture History. 8th ed. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2009. Print.
Blust, Robert. The Austronesian Languages. 28th ed. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2009. Print.
Hooper, Robin. Studies In Tokeluan Syntax. 8th ed. 1993. Print.
Hooper, Robin. Tokelauan. 1st ed. München: Lincom Europa, 1996. Print.
Hovdhaugen, Even. Ko Te Kalama Tokelau Muamua. 1st ed. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1989. Print.
Moyse-Faurie, Claire and Joachim Sabel. Topics In Oceanic Morphosyntax. 6th ed. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. Print.
Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik. The Noun Phrase In Samoan And Tokelauan. 6th ed. Oslo: N.p., 1988. Print.
References for Braden, Corina, Josh, and Rebecca 2/6
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corinaquach (talk • contribs) 09:51, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: An IP editor (2601:410:200:2E60:318E:B7A6:DA87:75AF) added the text "<English does not have long vowels, it has different vowels that English speakers call "long vowels." Actual long vowels sound the same but are held longer. Someone please specify which one Tokelauan has./>" to the article. As that does not belong in the article, but is a good question, I've moved it here.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  19:30, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That is simply false, English does have long vowels. I am really surprised there are people who think otherwise. Itsused (talk) 18:27, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long vowels 

message: In this edit,  added an interlinear gloss including the abbreviation "DIR", but without adding "DIR" to the local list of abbreviations (as they did for TA and COMP), resulting in an error (which  thought they had introduced in an entirely unconnected edit: see WP:Teahouse#Interlinear glossing today). I'm guessing it's "Directional" or something similar, but without access to the sources I shouldn't attempt to correct it. ColinFine (talk) 11:52, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the source and updated the abbreviation. Snowman304|talk 04:47, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing abbreviation in glosses 

message: In the article, the form “k'aumai“ occurs at least twice, but in the introduction of the alphabet there is no indication of the use of an apostrophy(-like) sign. What does the second symbol in the form mean?Redav (talk) 13:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unfortunately the contributing editor  hasn't edited for about five years so probably can't help. I suspect it's an error ( ʻaumai is the equivalent word in Samoan) but I don't have access to a dictionary of Tokelauan (or know anyone who has one). Daveosaurus (talk) 01:16, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form “k'aumai”