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Tongan

Austronesian Languages

Tongan is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch, native to the island nation of Tonga, with around 187,000 speakers. It follows a verb-subject-object word order and, although primarily a spoken language, is written using the Latin script.

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187,000 1
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Tonga 1
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Latin Script, Scripts

Tongan is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

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1. Tongan language, Wikipedia
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    It has around 187,000 speakers.
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    is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga.
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