The Tuvaluan language and English are the national languages of Tuvalu. Tuvaluan is of the Ellicean group of <answer>Polynesian</answer> languages, distantly related to all other <answer>Polynesian</answer> languages such as Hawaiian, Māori, Tahitian, Samoan and Tongan. It is most closely related to the languages spoken on the <answer>Polynesian</answer> outliers in Micronesia and northern and central Melanesia. The language has borrowed from the Samoan language, as a consequence of Christian missionaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries being predominantly Samoan.
What other languages is the Tuvaluan language related?
Polynesian