Tonga (disambiguation)

Tonga (disambiguation)

Tonga may refer to the Kingdom of Tonga or the African Tonga ethnic groups:

*Kingdom of Tonga, Pacific Island nation whose people are known as Tongans and who speak the Tongan language
*the Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe, an ethnic group mainly in southern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe, with some in Mozambique, who speak the Tonga language (Bantu group M)
*the Tonga people of Malawi, an ethnic group living on the shores of Lake Malawi who speak the Tonga language (Bantu group N)

Tonga may also refer to:
*one of several concepts of Polynesian mythology:
**the southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Māui.
**the Tonga islands now home to the Kingdom of Tonga referred to above, settled by the ancestors of all Polynesians, the Lapita.
**the name of the first woman in Tonga.
*persons with the surname Tonga:
**Esi Tonga (1988–), Australian Rugby league player, brother of Willie Tonga
**Willie Tonga (1983–), Australian Rugby league player, brother of Esi Tonga
*Tonga Island, New Zealand
*in São Tomé e Príncipe, child of a temporary immigrant
*in India, a horse carriage: see tonga (carriage)
*village on Nanumanga (Tuvalu): see Tonga (Tuvalu)
*version of Intel's Pentium II microprocessor designed for laptops
*military codename (Operation Tonga) given to an airborne operation during the Battle of Normandy
*the Tonga language (Mon-Khmer) spoken in Thailand and Malaysia
*a village located in Shilluk areas of southern Sudan that housed a Catholic mission station


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