ISO 639-3 · tonton
Austronesian family
Tongan
Lea fakatonga
Tongan is a language of the Polynesian branch (Austronesian), spoken in Tonga, American Samoa, Australia and Canada and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts about 186,010 speakers (2015). Wikidata describes it as “Polynesian language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ton- ISO 639-1
to- Glottocode
tong1325- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- -21.17, -175.17
- Wikipedia
- 90 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
1scripts
9levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tongan · Lea fakatonga |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tonga (Tonga Islands), to, Tongan language, Tonga dialect |
| All speakers | 186,010 (2015) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Tonga |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Tongan
The branches above Tongan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
