Tongan language

Tongan
Tongan
lea faka-Tonga
Native to	Tonga;; significant immigrant community in New Zealand and the United States
Native speakers	(187,000; 96,000 in Tonga cited 1998); 73,000 elsewhere (no date), primarily in NZ, U.S., and Australia;
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian Tongic Tongan; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin-based
Official status
Official language in	Tonga
Language codes
ISO 639-1	to
ISO 639-2	ton
ISO 639-3	ton
Glottolog	tong1325

Tongan (English pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) 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.

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