Tonganadj.n.

1853 J. E. Erskine Jrnl. Cruise Islands W. Pacific iv. 119 The group has from time immemorial formed part of the Tongan dominions.

1901 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 31 138 The Tongan mode of warfare was frontal attack by desperate charges; the Niuéan, a series of feints intended to frighten the enemy, and entice him into ambush.

1939 G. Blamires Little Island Kingdom of South 13 We had at least five anthems that evening, some of Tongan composition, others European, in the latter case the words being translated into Tongan.

1972 Vogue June 135/1 Rate of exchange: 2·14 Tongan dollars to £1.

1818 J. Martin in Mariner & Martin Acct. Natives Tonga Islands (ed. 2) p. iii Having written down sundry examples in English,..I gave them to Mr. Mariner to translate into Tonga.]

1853 J. E. Erskine Jrnl. Cruise Islands W. Pacific iv. 157 In imitation of the Feejeeans, the Tongans have occasionally practised cannibalism.

1897 S. W. Baker Eng. & Tongan Vocab. ii. iii. 35 The present tense in the Tongan language..for which we have two forms in English... In Tongan..there is but one form.

1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 183 The Tongans became..the most virulent Sabbatarians.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iii. 105 Every male Tongan is entitled by law when he becomes a taxpayer to receive a residential plot of land in a village or town.

1966 Listener 13 Jan. 62/1 I wrote it out in Tongan.

1976 S. R. Anderson in Symposium on Subject & Topic 3 A language in which ergativity is indicated by case marking alone is Tongan.

1978 Times 17 Jan. 17/4 Captain Cook..noted that Tongans boxed in much the same way as the English.