Tuvaluan who thought she was Samoan reconnects with her Tuvalu family
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2021
- Palele Faataape was 3 when she arrived in New Zealand from Tuvalu. She was adopted to an uncle and was raised believing she was Samoan. She's spent her whole life in Canterbury and has never been back to Tuvalu. It's left a hole in her heart that has never been filled. This week she met Tuvalu kaiga (family) in Christchurch as part of Tuvalu Language Week celebrations.
Most Tuvaluans can really speak in Samoan fluently. By the way, I’m a Samoan. Love for our Tuvaluan brothers and sisters n may God bless u all in Jesus Name.
It's our linguistics similarities. Samoa, Tonga, and Tokelau we share some linguistics similarities like Kioa in Fiji the people are actually Tuvaluans. The plaangis been classifying us as this and that. However, we are all one big family of the blue continent.....
@@km2441 They’re not just any Tuvaluans, they’re from the island of Vaitupu in Tuvalu.
Distance does not break family connections. Wonderful.
I totally understand my great- great grandfather was taken from tuvalu and forced to suger cane field in Australia and when he was a child.. tuvalu very similar to samoan and tongan and fiji 😆 because my great-great grandfather thought my grandpa all three languages because tuvalu is the connecting languages between all three also Kiribati and tokula can understand also similar...
Alofa lasi atu Kia koutou katoa.......may God bless us all....
Awesome story! In Hawai'i, we Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiians), depending on how long we live, we keep in close contact with our 1st-4th cousins. We also keep in contact with our grandparents siblings children and grandchildren, we dont consider how related a person is to another unless they're siblings. But usually your 1st cousins are like your siblings. Love to see how us Polynesians have so much cultural similarities ontop of linguistic similarities💙🤙🏽
Wonderful ❤️. Back to the roots. Family shapes who we are.
These family is so beautiful 😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺
If you understand both Tongan and Samoan, you can for the most part understand the Tuvaluan language.
Tuvaluan history and folklore say that the 8 islands have mixed blood of Tongan and Samoan, the north 4 islands mostly Tongan descent and south 4 are mostly Samoan descent
Spot on
God's got u always Aunty Palele 🥰😘
Super proud of you & the kaiga ♡♡♡
Alofa atu from Fiji Is. 💜
Samoa and Tuvalu people are same 🇼🇸.
Talofa thank you for this video!! From the states Los Angeles California USA
Crazy how the Tongans and the Samoans has travel to these little Islands and many more during the past influencing their language. Maybe that's why we're Polynesians. Pacific Vikings conquering each other lol. Congrats on meeting your lost family
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Tuvalu 🇹🇻 sounds a lot like Te reo Māori 🇳🇿 Sāmoan 🇼🇸 and hint of Tongan 🇹🇴. This is the first time I’ve ever heard that language and it’s beautiful.
Hard to tell because Tuvalu has 8 different dialects and one island in Tuvalu (Nui) speak Kiribati but with their own dialect too.
its similar to toke 🇹🇰
Absolutely beautiful
omg sounds so samoan 💕
God bless
Nice story alofa Aku for the Tuvalu ppl and nice you know what you truly are glad you know your family Malo le onosa'i le Tina matua.
I can almost understand her language but im Tongan
Io mo’oni koe tko
They sound like the other island in Tonga it's called Niuafo'ou..
Ko gali tou alofa iesu Mo matou fakafetai I Malō viviki atu kae tavae Ko se ai loa se aso e māsei ei matou I mea e kai mo mea e Inu I tau foaki mo matou ko foki laa (foki laa) tou alofa (lofa) nei ke a pulu (a pulu Ginā) matou I ou lima lofa ā I āso katoa
Wow! Our languages are super similar.
Language close to Tonga
Sipi kana
Samoa tuvalu same thing both Polynesian what’s the big deal? Lol