Tongic languages

Tongic languages

Infobox Language family
name=Tongic
region=Tonga and Niue
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
fam4=Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=East Fijian-Polynesian
fam10=Polynesian
child1=Tongan
child2=Niuean

The family of Tongic languages is a subgroup of the Polynesian languages. It consists of the two languages Tongan and Niuean.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=159 Ethnologue family tree for Tongic]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Nuclear Polynesian languages — Nuclear Polynesian Geographic distribution: Polynesia Linguistic classification: Austronesian Malayo Polynesian Oceanic Polynesian …   Wikipedia

  • East Fijian-Polynesian languages — Infobox Language family name=East Fijian Polynesian region=Fiji and Polynesia familycolor=Austronesian fam2=Malayo Polynesian fam3=Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian fam4=Eastern Malayo Polynesian fam5=Oceanic fam6=Central Eastern Oceanic… …   Wikipedia

  • Polynesian languages — Polynesian Geographic distribution: Polynesia Linguistic classification: Austronesian Malayo Polynesian Oceanic Central Pacific …   Wikipedia

  • Austronesian languages — formerly Malayo Polynesian languages Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan… …   Universalium

  • Niuean language — Niuean ko e vagahau Niuē Spoken in Niue, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Tonga Native speakers 8,000  (no date) Language family …   Wikipedia

  • Niuafo'ou language — Niuafo ou Spoken in Tonga Native speakers 690 (SIL 1981)  (date missing) Language family Austronesian Malayo Polynesian …   Wikipedia

  • Tongan language — Infobox Language name=Tongan nativename=lea faka Tonga states=Tonga, also American Samoa, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Niue, USA, Vanuatu speakers=105,319 (as of 1998) familycolor=Austronesian fam2=Malayo Polynesian fam3=Central Eastern… …   Wikipedia

  • Rotuman people — ethnic group group=Rotuman people poptime= c. 10,000 popplace=Rotuma, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, United States rels=Methodism, Roman Catholicism langs=Rotuman, English related=Samoans, Tongans, Fijians, other Pacific peoples Rotuma is a …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”