Ellicean is a subgroup of the Nuclear Polynesian languages within the Austronesian family, proposed by linguist William Wilson in 1985 and named after the pre-independence name of Tuvalu. It comprises two branches, Ellicean-Outlier, including Tuvaluan, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi, Nukuria, Takuu, Nukumanu, Ontong Java, Sikaiana and Pileni, and Samoic, comprising Samoan and Tokelauan.
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Ellicean (the Ellice or Tuvaluan-Polynesian outliers group) is classified within the Samoic-Outlier branch of Nuclear Polynesian, spoken in Tuvalu and on several outlier islands in Melanesia and Micronesia.
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