Niuen.adj.

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 104 One hundred and thirty words are given in the following fifty-nine languages: Marquesas, Tahiti, Hawaii, Raratonga, Manahiki, Samoa, Niué.

1893 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 2 11 The words were obtained from the New Testament translated into Niue by the Rev. Frank Lawes.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 425/2 Besides general work in the mission and the industrial training of the people, he engaged in linguistic study, and in 1886 completed the task begun by others of rendering the New Testament into Niué.

1964 Current Anthropol. 5 362 The sample is selected to include seven (Futunan, Uvean, Niue, Toangan, Tikopia, Ellice, Samoan) Western Polynesian languages.

1984 Current Anthropol. 25 630 There has long been a tendency to assume great antiquity in the divergence of Tonga-Niue from the rest of the Polynesian language family and to treat is as virtually a survival of Proto-Polynesian.

1893 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 2 13 The missionaries..‘induced’ two of the Niue youths to accompany them.

1924 Man 24 135 Tregear and Percy Smith in the Niue vocabulary have aitu ‘a ghost’.

1991 Keesings Contemp. Arch. (BNC) Although the Niue political system is not based upon formal political organizations, the Niue People's Action Party (NPAP), led by Young Vivian, was established in 1987 as an unofficial opposition to the Rex government.