Tongan (English pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation...
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Tonga Tongan language, the national language of Tonga Tong'an District, a district in Xiamen, Fujian, China Tonga (disambiguation) Tonga language (disambiguation)...
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Tonga (redirect from Tongan Rugby)
identity, language, and culture as the Tongan people. They were quick to establish a powerful footing across the South Pacific, and this period of Tongan expansionism...
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a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan and slightly more...
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different languages: Tongan language, or Tonga (ISO 639-3: ton) – a Polynesian language spoken in Tonga in the South Pacific Tonga language (Zambia and...
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The obverse of Tongan notes features text in the Tongan language and shows the portrait of the monarch. The reverse is in English language and shows typical...
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Polynesian language, and number around a thousand. Also, there are many Tongan residents and Fijians of Tongan descent in Fiji. These groups speak the Tongan language...
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language to Wallisian is Niuafo'ou. It is also closely related to Tongan, though part of the Samoic branch, and has borrowed extensively from Tongan due...
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Malila in the Tongan language. According to one story, Tu'i Malila was one of a pair of tortoises given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family upon...
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Poke (dish) (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
Poke (/ˈpoʊkeɪ/; Hawaiian for 'to slice' or 'cut crosswise into pieces'; sometimes anglicised as poké to aid pronunciation as two syllables) is a dish...
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Corned beef (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
Corned beef, bully beef, or salt beef in some Commonwealth countries, is salt-cured brisket of beef. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with...
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Tongan Australians (Tongan: kau ʻAositelēlia Tonga) are Australians who are of ethnic Tongan descent or Tongans who hold Australian citizenship. According...
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Tonga national rugby union team (redirect from Tongan rugby union team)
The Tonga national rugby union team (Tongan: timi feohi ʻakapulu fakafonua ʻa Tonga) represents the Tonga Rugby Union in men's international rugby union...
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60% in English, 40% in Tongan, for Tongan language programs only. TV Tonga maintains a website, with an online news service. Tongan television viewers' bonanza...
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Tonga. There are approximately 57,000 Tongans and Tongan Americans living in the United States, as of 2012. Tongans are considered to be Pacific Islanders...
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Polynesia (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
influence, up to parts of the Solomon Islands. The Tongan influence brought Polynesian customs and language throughout most of Polynesia. The empire began...
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discussion forum concerning the origins of life, and evolution Tongan language ISO 639 alpha-2 language code Tornado Outbreak, an action-adventure video game Tanki...
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in a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (Tongan: Paati Temokalati ʻa e ʻOtu Motu ʻAngaʻofa, or PTOA), and ʻAkilisi Pōhiva...
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The Tongan castaways were a group of six Tongan teenage boys who shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of ʻAta in 1965 and lived there for 15 months until...
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History of Tonga (redirect from Anglo-Tongan Treaty of Friendship)
Tongan Islands are found on Tongatapu which is also where the first Lapita ceramics were found by WC McKern in 1921. Nonetheless, reaching the Tongan...
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The Legislative Assembly of Tonga (Tongan: Fale Alea ʻo Tonga) is the unicameral legislature of Tonga. A Legislative Assembly providing for representation...
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Apostrophe (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
rendered as ⟨'⟩. It is considered a letter of the alphabet. Mayan. In the Tongan language, the apostrophe is called a fakauʻa and is the last letter of the alphabet...
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(Tongan: Siasi ʻo Sīsū Kalaisi ʻo e Kau Māʻoniʻoni ʻi he Ngaahi ʻAho Kimui Ní or Siasi Māmonga) has had a presence in Tonga since 1891. The Tongan Mission...
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Pākehā (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
from the proto-Polynesian root puaka, known in every Polynesian language (puaka in Tongan, Uvean, Futunian, Rapa, Marquisian, Niuean, Rarotongan, Tokelauan...
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David (name) (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
Tamil: தாவீது (Daveedu) Telugu: దావీదు (Dáveedu) Thai: เดวิด (RTGS: Dewit) Tongan: Tevita Turkish: Davut, Davud Ukrainian: Давид (Davyd), Devid Urdu: داؤد...
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Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern...
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Faʻafafine (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
"woman". It is a cognate of related words in other Polynesian languages, such as Tongan: fakaleiti or fakafefine, the Cook Islands Māori: akava'ine, and...
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George Tupou V (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
Recipient of the Gold Benemerenti Medal See the Tongan language page and ancestor's page ... Tongan: Siaosi Tupou V It might be argued[by whom?] that...
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Tonga national football team (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
The Tonga men's national football team (Tongan: timi soka fakafonua ʻa Tonga) represents Tonga in men's international football and is controlled by the...
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Ko e fasi ʻo e tuʻi ʻo e ʻOtu Tonga (category Articles containing Tongan-language text)
notation and the tuʻungafasi, or Tongan music notation: See Help:IPA, Tongan language § Alphabet and Tongan language § Phonology. "National Anthem of...
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