tongan language

This article is about the Polynesian language of the nation of Tonga. For the (unrelated) Bantu language spoken in Malawi, see Tonga language.

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. 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.

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Ethnologue on Tongan

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