How To Use Tonga In A Sentence
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A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
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Critics say the bill threatens some of the most ecologically unique areas of the Tongass forest, namely karst limestone habitat, as well as two subspecies: the Queen Charlotte goshawk and the Alexander Archipelago wolf.
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'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka.
The Pool in the Desert
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The Tongass supports brown bear, wolverine, northern goshawk, marbled murrelet, marten, Sitka black-tailed deer, the Alexander Archipelago wolf, and healthy runs of five salmon species.
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Malagasy · Nigeria: Tonga ao Lagos ny tariby vaovao avy any anaty ranomasina ho an'ny aterineto
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - NA (2003), 2.1952 (2002), 2.1236
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
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Having spent a bit of time in Robinvale and sharing the odd hangi with some Tongans, it looked to me like a great Saturday night.
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Christian missionary activity has taken place since 1797 and has had a great impact on the Tongan culture.
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The yam bean's crisp, juicy quality - and the idea of eating the tuber raw - struck the Tongans as exotic and peculiar.
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DATURA Family: Solanaceae Genus: Datura Species: Species: fastuosa: large shrub with white flowers inoxia (Don Juan's Datura): native to mexico metel: native to India. sanguinea (Eagle Datura, Tonga): Native to S.America. stramonium (Jimson Weed): Dangerous hallucinogen widespread in temperate regions.
Natural Highs Frequently Asked Questions by Vince Cavasin
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Tongans were fierce warriors and skilled navigators whose outrigger canoes could carry up to two hundred people.
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Over the same period other publishers produced a further 100 items, including the only publications in Pukapukan (from Mataaliki Press) and the Pasifika Press series of dictionaries and/or language course books in Samoan, Cook Islands Mäori and Tongan.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
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Keempat, sistem sensor yang dipakai masih memakai sistem pemotongan dan bukan klasifikasi murni.
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Electricity tariffs will decrease by 29.91 seniti per kilowatt hour (29\%) to 72.76 seniti per kWh on Tongatapu, [and] will apply to electricity supplied after the date of the next meter readings in February," he said.
Matangi Tonga Online -
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The thin, shrouded tongawallah whipped his horse, veins snaking down his wrists, riverlike.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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An occasional tonga clattered by, the driver and his passenger perched atop the two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by a donkey daring enough to brave the traffic.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
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Then the procession wound slowly down the mountain, and henceforth none dare ascend the slope of Maunganamu on pain of death, for it was "tabooed," like Tongariro, where lie the ashes of a chief killed by an earthquake in 1846.
In Search of the Castaways
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The aircraft must refuel on Aitutaki before going on to the remote island, 1200 km northwest of Rarotonga.
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Now and then, a rickshaw wallah or an empty tonga, driver half asleep, weary horse barely moving, strayed across their path.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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On July 23, the absence of staff to clear and discharge cargo forced one ship to bypass Tonga.
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We had everything from bleached surfer dudes to Tongan gentlemen wearing the traditional lava lava.
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As reported in The N.Y. Times, "Tonga has decided against calling its new decimal currency unit the dollar because the native word tola also means a
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
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Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains.
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Jackie-Jackie, a Tongan sailor of experience, served as a sort of bosun and semi-second mate over the mixed Kanaka crew.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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Despite the excitements it had to offer, I was happy to leave the pollution and sprawl of L.A. and set off for the shores of Tonga.
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She could see her husband hunching to release himself from the shelter of the tonga, too tall for its low bonnet.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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The Malay word may also have been introduced to the Tongans by the Dutch themselves, as many Malay loanwords were already current in 17th century Dutch.
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Once the tonga was the most cherished vehicle of the city's elite and the common people alike.
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As well as that, pawpaws have been commercially planted on Rarotonga for over 30 years.
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Even a tonga will be a relief after three days of this, Doggott," he observed, surrendering himself to the ministrations of the servant.
The Bronze Bell
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The Tonga use soil moisture from flooding in three distinct locations as they are exposed by dropping floodwaters: kalonga, small pockets of moist tributary stream-beds; kuti, on the first river terrace; and jelele, on the riverbank itself.
5. How plants live and grow
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The following day an engineer had been flown to Rarotonga to carry out a borescope inspection of the engine but had found no visible damage, the report said.
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We've provided a million dollars for what we call the rescue phase of that emergency and we are now going with senior bureaucrats and some defence force people from Tonga to examine what the recovery phase will look like.
Bob McMullan, Federal Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, interview with ABC 774 Melbourne. Subject: Pacific earthquakes and tsunami
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Tongans were fierce warriors and skilled navigators whose outrigger canoes could carry up to two hundred people.
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The name "Batonga" stems from a word Angelique made up as a response to taunts when she was going to school -- the boys didn't know what the word meant, but to her it was an assertion of the rights of girls to education.
Peter Buffett and Angelique Kidjo Release Single to Support Girls in Africa
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On December 19th 2008, paige thompson wrote: girl i would love too see tina turner in ngaiotonga new zealand. take her to my local marae which is only nextdoor. and get the local boys to dive for us some kaimoana in english seafood. she can bring oprah, gayle celine dion, toni braxton, cher, kylie minogue, whitney houston and all my fav female singers. i sing and dance to them in my caravan. i am a diva. love arohanui paige. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Comare that to Tonga where the country is ruled by a feudal system consisting of a linage of kings and Nobles whom pass their rights onto their sons.
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The reason given was that the Rarotonga Airport runway was not long enough for the aircraft to take off with a full load, making the service economically unviable.
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New Zealanders get righteously upset when foreigners talk about the likes of Tana Umaga and Jonah Lomu as ‘islanders’ when both were born in New Zealand, albeit to parents from Samoa and Tonga respectively.
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It is unreasonable for one to still think that they would find Arab merchants and Tongas engaged in the barter system of trade in ivory, salt, copper ornaments and other goods today.
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the Pacific women's trio Manuhiri from New Zealand and Tonga, with their contemporary acoustic music and lush harmonies.
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The Tongas whose major occupation has been agriculture used livestock for tilling the land, getting milk for sale and home consumption.
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From time immemorial, Tongas have viewed cattle rearing as their only source of wealth and in the past it was difficult for them to imagine that their valuable domestic animal would vanish through uncontrolled circumstances.
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On Rarotonga, Mama Mata was a renowned cook, her speciality was poke, arrowroot pudding made from banana, mango or pumpkin which her relatives who lived on Rarotonga would request she make for their functions.
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The visiting relationship is the most common form of conjugal union for poor Forro or Tonga females.
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In fact, by itself, the Tongass accounts for more than one-third of all the remaining old-growth, temperate rainforest habitat in the world.
Michael Brune: Rainforest, USA
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tonga," its pair of wheels and its white awning rolling and jolting behind two good horses, passes long lines of bullock-carts.
Appearances Being Notes of Travel
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The Tonga women of the Zambezi River Valley very often combined the three colors white, blue, and red in their unique beadwork.
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Fashion and pinups aside, the breakout of tangas on real beaches is often attributed to Brazilians, who are also credited with the origin of the word, occasionally also spelled tunga, tonga.
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While he was there, Uetonga, the father of Niwareka, taught him Ta Moko, and Mataora brought this taonga to our world.
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Christian Cullen - with largely Tongan and Anglo-Irish antecedents - was deemed to have no chance but the kaumatua found him to be 1/64th Maori.
Archive 2005-06-01
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He was born in Auckland but raised by his aunt and uncle in Tonga from the age of 1 until he was 7.
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The ship sailed for the Caribbean, but the infamous mutiny off Tonga resulted in Captain Bligh and a small party of loyal seamen being forced into a small boat, in which they made an epic journey to Timor.
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - 1.96 (2005), 1.9716 (2004), 2.142
The 2007 CIA World Factbook
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A day's journey by tonga matures acquaintanceships wonderfully," he observed abstrusely.
The Bronze Bell
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The sequence involves a decline in phanerogam genera from c. 1,400 in Papua New Guinea to c. 260 in both Tonga and Niue.
East Rennell, Solomon Islands
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Resembling a small breadfruit, noni comes from a hardy tropical shrub that grows with weed-like abandon from Tonga to Thailand.
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If a Tonga, for instance, was to come to power, it could mean all the other Tongas in the country aligning themselves to him.
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But a strapping Rarotonga vahine [1] -- she must have weighed two hundred and fifty -- brought up against him and got an arm around his neck.
THE HEATHEN
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That sort of money goes a long way in Tonga, and will allow the strikers to outlast the government.
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The Tonga people have been renowned for their love for cattle over the centuries.
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Many of the Tongans heard the word gladly, though hitherto known for their evil doings, and returned home changed in heart and manners.
The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
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There are teams like Tonga, who could barely scrape enough money together to get here.
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The Tongan king on the other hand is happy to have dispensed with Nepotism after sacking his own bother from the job as PM prior, and has used Sevele for bleeding the country dry of its hard earned dollars and aid by handing over millions of dollars in exchange for public owned assets that the king claimed belonged to himself.
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For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school.
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Beginning in the 10th century, they were ruled by a line of sacred kings and queens called the Tu'i Tonga.
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - 1.96 (2005), 1.9716 (2004), 2.142
The 2007 CIA World Factbook
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Tongan beaches
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The book vividly recollects a season spent with Tongans, who through economic necessity, still hunt whales from small boats with hand-held harpoons.
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In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro (a starchy tuber).
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Indo-Pacific: Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Hawaiian and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Tonga and Rarotonga.
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Most of the outer islands of the southern Tongass are made of limestone, a relatively soft, porous rock.
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Nobody goes hungry or homeless in Tonga.
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They have stolen a statue of a steenbok from Wits University, as well as the plaque on the striking black granite cube commemorating Enoch Sontonga, author of the national anthem.
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So when Michel popped the question, she said the first thing that came into her head as a way of stalling him: ‘Only if the King of Tonga marries us.’
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THE wind not permitting us to visit Tongataboo, we proceeded to Catooa and Navigator's Isles, the loss of our tender having prevented us from doing it before, and endeavoured to fall in with the eastermost of these islands.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
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Those were the years when rich Tongas boasted of owning hundreds of cattle.
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Earlier last year there had been a small outbreak in the Tonga region when 22 people contracted the disease after major flooding in Mozambique in February.
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Tonga: pa'anga per US dollar - 1.9885 (January 2001), 1.7585 (2000),
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - 1.9716 (2004), 2.142 (2003), 2.1952
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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From there you take a bone-shaking bumpy ride in a tonga to Bisola.
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Sewage discharge, bush clearance, farm runoff, sedimentation, landfills, gravel extraction, water abstraction, headwater diversion, commercial fishing operations, and the Tongariro hydroelectricity scheme has all had a direct influence on the destruction of the fisheries in this rohe.
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I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletê" translation: "Anywhere Faraway".
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According to Doctor Robert Mtonga, a health practitioner, obesity can come as a result of nutritional habits or in some cases it is due to heredity in families.
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On Rarotonga, ongoing development work includes a new check in area at the international airport and construction of a harbour basin for small fishing boats.
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Transmitting on the frequency 100.9, the station devotes 60 per cent of its airtime to programmes in Tonga while the rest are in English.
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In the Otonga area, during this study, the violet tailed sylphs and speckled hummingbirds were observed as those with the largest diet range.
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In 1985 it concluded the Treaty of Raratonga, which declared the South Pacific a nuclear-free zone from December 1986.
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Tonga: pa'anga per US dollar - 1.9885 (January 2001), 1.7585 (2000),
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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In Tonga, he hangs out with courtiers and the king.
Times, Sunday Times
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The region's two national forests, Tongass and Chugach, provide habitat for wolves, bears, and other wildlife that have largely disappeared from the rest of the country, and their watersheds nurture salmon and steelhead trout.
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - 1.9716 (2004), 2.142 (2003), 2.1952
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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When he lived in Lahore, he wore the latest suits and drove the finest tongas.
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Scientists believe the Pacific plate usually slides under the Tonga block with most of the stress being relieved by moderate quakes and gradual creeping motion - known as aseismic slip - rather than producing great quakes, Koper says.
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By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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The Samoans booked their place with a 31-13 win over Tonga in Apia to move to the top of the triangular Oceania qualifying competition.
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These Tongan American school children are singing at a luau celebrating a new road being built in Milolii, Hawaii.
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As if the commoner Middletons were not worrying enough to royal scholars such as James Whitaker, there had to be a risk that Goldsmith, a property developer, might, with his record of upstart hedonism actively contaminate an occasion featuring a King of Saudi Arabia, their Tonganese highnesses and the hardly less eminent royal broadcaster, ITN's Tom Bradby.
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German ambassador meets PM German ambassador His Excellency Eric Riedler paid a visit to Prime Minister Dr Robert Woonton and other officials on Rarotonga this week.
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Wallis is an island of 23 square miles to the north of Fiji and west of Tonga and Samoa.
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The next day the hiking group drove south to Tongariro, a national park with a couple of dormant volcanoes, to do the tramp.
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Resembling a small breadfruit, noni comes from a hardy tropical shrub that grows with weed-like abandon from Tonga to Thailand.
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They thought Congress will be the horse and they will be the rider but we showed them that this 'tonga' can run on its own.
Zee News : India National
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There are people astride camels and horses, and some ensconced within tongas and bullock carts for fun-filled rides.
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Sitake also plays guitar, ukulele, harmonica, and trumpet, and has recorded a compact disc mixing Tongan and western music.
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I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletê" translation: "Anywhere Faraway".
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From the Malaspina Glacier west of Yakutat Bay, the Tongass sweeps south 500 miles over most of Alaska's southeastern panhandle and the Alexander Archipelago.
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The Indian repeated the word interrogatively, Mawhatonga?
Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans
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In descending order the top five nationalities are Samoa, Tonga, China, Thailand, and Great Britain.
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A tonga resembles a huge wooden box, balanced on two sturdy wheels, drawn by a single blinkered horse.
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The Tonga live in southern Zambia along the Zambezi River.
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This involves features such as phonemic vowel length distinctions, consistently hard C, semi-vocalic V, diphtongal AE, aspirated (as opposed to fricative) PH, and so on.
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Now and then, a rickshaw wallah or an empty tonga, driver half asleep, weary horse barely moving, strayed across their path.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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The immediate ancestor of Polynesian culture is referred to as Lapita, a complex culture extending from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa.
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The seventh Tonga Music Festival aimed at promoting the Tonga culture through music needs an estimated K40 million to successfully host the annual event.
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Tonga pa'anga per US dollar - NA (2003), 2.1952 (2002), 2.1236
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
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What our Prime Minister said, and what we said to your Prime Minister and to the Forum Minister, is that Australia knows that a lot of countries in the Pacific, including Tonga, are very interested in the idea of what we call labour mobility – the seasonal workers scheme.
Transcript - Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs - The Hon Duncan Kerr MP
