Niuean [ njuːˈeɪən ] ( Niuean : ko e vagahau Niuē ) is a Polynesian language , belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages . The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia and on a patchwork of outliers from south central Micronesia to small islands off the northeast of the larger islands of the southeast Solomon Islands and sprinkled through Vanuatu . There are approximately forty Polynesian languages . The most prominent of these are Tahitian , Sāmoan , Tongan , Māori and Hawaiian . All Polynesian languages show strong similarity , particularly in vocabulary .
There are zero Polynesian languages.