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Tongan is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga. It has around 187,000 speakers. It uses the word order verb–subject–object. Tongan is one of the multiple languages in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with
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The earliest attempts to transcribe the Tongan language were made by Schouten and Le Maire of the Dutch East India Company when they first arrived in 1616. They transcribed a limited...
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English, like most European languages, uses only two articles:
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See moreOne of the first publications of Tongan texts was in William Mariner's grammar and dictionary of the Tongan language, edited and published in
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See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseWas this helpful?Thanks! Give more feedback Tonga , officially named the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and also an archipelago consisting of 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area of the archipelago is about 750 km (290 sq mi), scattered over 700,000 km (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. As of 2021, according to Johnson's Tribune, Tonga has a popul…
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