Tokelauan people are the indigenous Polynesian people of Tokelau, an island group in Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean. The native language of the Tokelauans is Tokelauan. The group's home islands are a dependent territory of New Zealand. 77% of Tokelau's population of 1,650 claims Tokelauan ancestry, while 8,676 Tokelauans live in New Zealand. A small number also live in Samoa.