Directory of Tongan Resources

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Tongan, also known as Tonga, is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 98% of the people of Tonga with smaller but significant populations in American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, the United States and Vanuatu. The language is closely related to Niuean.

Subcategories

• Dictionaries

Resources in This Category

• James & Meliame's Tongasite

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jamel/
  This site is primarily in Tongan.

• Morphosyntax of 2P Pronouns in Tongan

  http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/1/hpsg00dukes.pdf
  Paper by Michael Dukes of the University of Canterbury and Stanford University examining 'second position' or 'Wackernagel' elements and their functional properties in Tongan.

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