Niueann.adj.

1863 A. W. Murray Missions in W. Polynesia xiii. 381 The total number of church members now on Niue, including..Niueans admitted in Samoa, is sixty-five.

1902 B. Thomson Savage Island p. v I went to the Niuéans in the name of the Queen and Empress whom the world is still lamenting.

1954 K. B. Cumberland Southwest Pacific vi. 270 It was native missionaries, Samoans mainly, who converted the Niueans.

1973 Guardian 21 May 13/4 The Cook Islanders and Niueans are New Zealand citizens, have free right of entry... The Fijians and Tongans need individual permits.

2003 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 May a3 The government..is ready to steamroll the rows of abandoned houses on the island, an affront to many Niueans in New Zealand who speak darkly of the spirits of family ancestors still guarding their homes.

1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 29 157 Niuéan is an admixture of Samoan and Tongan elements.

1968 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 205/2 The best known of the dialects [of the Polynesian language] include Hawaiian,..Tongan, Tahitian, Niuean,..and Tuamotuan.

1993 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 22 440 The first split in Polynesian appears to have been between a Tongic branch comprising Tongan and Niuean, and a Nuclear Polynesian branch comprising the 28 or so remaining Polynesian languages.

1868 T. Powell Savage Island i. 11 This use of the E is a marked characteristic of the Niuéan dialect.

1901 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 31 138 The Tongan mode of warfare was frontal attack by desperate charges; the Niuéan, a series of feints intended to frighten the enemy, and entice him into ambush.

1924 R. W. Williamson Social & Polit. Syst. Cent. Polynesia II. xiv. 53 I have..referred to Tregear's dictionary and to a Niuean vocabulary provided by Williams.

1962 H. Luke Islands S. Pacific xii. 222 In the latter half of the [19th] century..Niuean men would voluntarily leave the island..to work phosphate for good wages on Malden Island.

1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 731/1 The first Niuean Legislative Assembly was elected in 1960.