Tongan
Polynesian language
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Summary
Tongan is a modern language[1]. Tongan draws 1,563 Wikipedia views per month (modern language category, ranking #13 of 43).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Tonga[3], American Samoa[4], Australia[5], Canada[6], Fiji[7], New Zealand[8], Niue[9], Vanuatu[10]
- Instance of: natural language[11]
- Subclass of: Tongic[12]
- Writing system: Latin script[13]
- Commons category: Tongan language[14]
- Wikimedia language code: to[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tongan language[16]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=136[17]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 186,010[18]
- Native label: Lea fakatonga[19], Faka Tonga[20]
- Different from: Tonga language[21]
- Indigenous to: Tonga[22]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TON[23]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[24]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[25]
Why It Matters
Tongan has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Tongan is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]