Tongan Tongan

Tongan - Definition and Overview

Tongan is an Austronesian language spoken in Tonga. It has 100,000 speakers and is a national language of Tonga. It is a VSO language. ("Tonga" is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi.)

Tongan is one of the many tongues in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan and Tahitian, for example. Together with Niuean, it forms the Tongic subgroup of Polynesian.

The English word "taboo" is a loan word from Tongan.

External Link

Wikipedia
Wikipedia articles written in this language are located at the
Tongan language Wikipedia



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Example Usage of Tongan
JAZZYBABYBANGA: give a shit if im 3 1/2 mnths pregnant,these Tongan bitches was fina get the bidnis..lmao
k0vi: http://twitpic.com/rdovc - Fakalata...havnt been to a Tongan function in a min
soisoss: love the sound smell and SIGHT of a Tongan function; at da misinale n epA admiring the beauty of our...Tongan....brethren....hahahahahahaha
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