Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken in the south-central Pacific, and by small groups of Tuvaluan migrants in Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, and the USA. Within the Polynesian family of languages, Tuvaluan belongs to the so-called Samoic-Outlier group, and is most closely related to the languages of Tokelau, Futuna, and Samoa, but also - though more distantly - to Tongan, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Maori.