NOUN
- a Polynesian native or inhabitant of Tonga
- the Polynesian language spoken by the Tongan people
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the island monarchy of Tonga or its people
Tongan beaches
How To Use Tongan In A Sentence
- 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
- Sitake also plays guitar, ukulele, harmonica, and trumpet, and has recorded a compact disc mixing Tongan and western music.
- 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. Look what you're marrying into, Kate | Catherine Bennett
- These Tongan American school children are singing at a luau celebrating a new road being built in Milolii, Hawaii.
- 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
- 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).
- The book vividly recollects a season spent with Tongans, who through economic necessity, still hunt whales from small boats with hand-held harpoons.
- Tongan beaches
- For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school.
- 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. Global Voices in English » Fiji faces suspension from Pacific Islands Forum