Tuvaluan who thought she was Samoan reconnects with her Tuvalu family 

Distance does not break family connections. Wonderful.

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.

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...

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.

Alofa lasi atu Kia koutou katoa.......may God bless us all....

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

God's got u always Aunty Palele 🥰😘 Super proud of you & the kaiga ♡♡♡ Alofa atu from Fiji Is. 💜

If you understand both Tongan and Samoan, you can for the most part understand the Tuvaluan language.

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

These family is so beautiful 😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺

Talofa thank you for this video!! From the states Los Angeles California USA

Samoa and Tuvalu people are same 🇼🇸.

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.

Absolutely beautiful

I can almost understand her language but im Tongan

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.

omg sounds so samoan 💕

God bless

Wow! Our languages are super similar.

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

Language close to Tonga

Sipi kana

Samoa tuvalu same thing both Polynesian what’s the big deal? Lol