On Tokelau it is blamed on an infected Gilbertese.
In 1974 the Ellice Islanders, who are of Polynesian descent, voted to separate from the Micronesian Gilbertese.
2mass nounThe Micronesian language spoken in the Gilbert Islands.
（吉尔伯特群岛居民所说的）密克罗尼西亚语
See Kiribati
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Many Tuvaluans are competent in Samoan, which functioned as the language of church and (to a lesser extent) government until recently, as well as Gilbertese, the dominant language of the colony for seven decades.
The I-Kiribati language, sometimes referred to as Gilbertese, is a Micronesian language in the Austronesian family and is spoken in a relatively uniform manner throughout the islands.