Wallisian, also called East Uvean or Faka'uvea, is a Polynesian language spoken on Wallis Island in Wallis and Futuna, a French overseas collectivity in the South Pacific. It is closely related to Tongan, reflecting Tongan influence over the island in past centuries, and more distantly to Samoan and other Polynesian languages. Speaker numbers are small: several thousand people on Wallis itself, together with a larger emigrant community in New Caledonia, where many Wallisians moved for work from the mid twentieth century onward. The language is written in the Latin alphabet and used alongside French, the official language of the territory, in church life, broadcasting and daily conversation. Futuna, the other main island of the territory, has its own distinct language, Futunan.
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