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Tuvaluan

/tuːˈvɑluːən/

Tuvaluan noun: a person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent.

tuvaluan: a person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent
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Noun

Tuvaluan (plural Tuvaluans)

  1. A person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent.

Adjective

Tuvaluan (comparative more Tuvaluan, superlative most Tuvaluan)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Tuvalu, the Tuvaluan people or the Tuvaluan language.

Proper noun

Tuvaluan

  1. The Polynesian language mostly spoken in Tuvalu.

Tuvaluan meaning in Bengali and Indonesian

Tuvaluan in Bengali

টুভালীয়

Tuvaluan in Indonesian

A person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent
orang Tuvalu

Forms of Tuvaluan

Noun
pluralTuvaluans
Adjective
comparativemore Tuvaluan
superlativemost Tuvaluan

Origin of Tuvaluan

From Tuvalu + -an.

Questions about Tuvaluan

What does Tuvaluan mean?
Tuvaluan means a person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent.
What is Tuvaluan in Bengali?
Tuvaluan in Bengali is টুভালীয়. See Tuvaluan meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Tuvaluan?
Tuvaluan can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tuvaluan?
Tuvaluan is pronounced /tuːˈvɑluːən/.
What is the plural of Tuvaluan?
The plural of Tuvaluan is Tuvaluans.

Words near Tuvaluan in the dictionary

  1. Tuva
  2. Tuvalan
  3. Tuvalans
  4. Tuvalian
  5. Tuvalu
  6. Tuvaluan
  7. Tuvaluans
  8. Tuvamainim
  9. Tuvan
  10. Tuvan People's Republic
  11. Tuvanimptewa

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tuvaluan (page history and authors); Tuvaluan (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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