Tonga (disambiguation)

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Tonga may refer to the following:

• The Pacific Island nation of Tonga.
• Tonga Island in New Zealand.
• In Polynesian mythology, Tonga refers to several different ideas.

1. The southwest wind, the last wind to be reined in by Maui.
2. The Tonga islands, described above, settled by the ancestors of all Polynesians, the Lapita.
3. The name of the first woman on Tonga.

• Tonga is also the name of three different languages:

1. Tonga language (Bantu group M) spoken in Zambia and Zimbabwe
2. Tonga language (Bantu group N) spoken in Malawi
3. Tonga language (Mon-Khmer) spoken in Thailand and Malaysia

• Tonga people of Southern Zambia and Zimbabwe. See Tonga people.