Loimata Iupati
Loimata Iupati is a senior administrator and educator from the Pacific territory of Tokelau.
Iupati is the resident director of education of Tokelau. This is geographically a series of Pacific atolls which collectively form a territory of New Zealand.
In 1996 Iupati was part of a team appointed to translate the Bible into Tokelauan.[1] This language is a Polynesian one, akin to Samoan and intelligible to speakers of Tuvaluan.
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- ^ "Tokelauan community changing the language of God from Samoan". RNZ. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
Categories:
- Translators of the Bible into Polynesian languages
- Tokelauan politicians
- Living people
- Translators from English
- Translators to Tokelauan
- Bible translator stubs
- Oceanian politician stubs
- Tokelau stubs