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Pages in category "Tongan given names" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fifita
Pages in category "Tongan-language surnames" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Afeaki;
Tonga as a given name or surname may refer to: Tonga Fifita (born 1959), semi-retired professional wrestler; Tonga Leaʻaetoa (born 1977), New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player; Tonga Mahuta (c. 1897 – 1947), New Zealand tribal leader; Lord Tonga Tuʻiʻafitu (born 1962), Tongan clergyman and politician
Tongan has a very rich oral literature and is primarily a spoken, rather than written, language. One of the first publications of Tongan texts was in William Mariner 's grammar and dictionary of the Tongan language, edited and published in 1817 by John Martin as part of volume 2 of Mariner's Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the ...
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The following list gives all islands and cities (villages and hamlets) in Tonga in alphabetical order with many local areas and nicknames as well. Coordinates are given for the centre of each place. All place names are given in the Tongan language.
The word tonga is cognate to the Hawaiian word kona meaning 'leeward', which is the origin of the name for the Kona District in Hawaiʻi. [15] Tonga became known in the West as the "Friendly Islands" because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773.
The name is a short form of Antonia as well as an alternate form of Þone. [1] Tona is also a Danish , Norwegian and Swedish feminine given name in use in Denmark, Greenland, Sweden, and Norway as a short form of Antona as well as an alternate form of Tone and Torny. [ 2 ]