The two languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, although Anutans can understand Tikopians better than the reverse.
[2]: 6 Anuta is generally regarded as Nuclear Polynesian language, although it bears considerable Tongic influence.
[3] In 1977, Richard Feinberg published a two-volume dictionary and basic grammar of the language.
[2] Dual and plural 1st person are separated into exclusive and inclusive categories which depends on the words placement in the sentence.
When the pronoun is standing alone, usually in a response of a question, it is attached with the particle ko.
If time is unimportant in the context of the sentence, tense markers will be dropped.
[2] If the object of counting are humans the word toko will be placed in front of the number if it is enumerated.