Tongan
Spoken language
Tongan is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation of Tonga. It has around 187,000 speakers. It uses the word order verb–subject–object. Wikipedia
Region: Oceania
State flower: The heilala flower
Language family: Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic > Polynesian > Tongic > Tongan
Native speakers: (187,000: 96,000 in Tonga cited 1998); 73,000 elsewhere (no date), primarily in NZ, U.S., and Australia;
Native to: Tonga; significant immigrant community in New Zealand and the United States
Official language in: Tonga
Writing system: Latin-based