Loimata Iupati

Loimata Ahela 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.

In 1990, Iupati was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.^[2]

References

1. "Tokelauan community changing the language of God from Samoan". RNZ. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
2. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 199. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.