Global Interpreting understands the importance of working in the Tongan language. For over 10 years, Global Interpreting has worked with the Tongan language as well as hundreds of other from around the word. We are a one stop full language service provider. Offering Over the Phone, Video Remote, Face to Face, Transcription, Document and Website Translation in 150 languages including American Sign Language (ASL) nation and worldwide.

Tongan (lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language spoken in Tonga. It has around 200,000 speakers and is a national language of Tonga. It is a VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) language.

Tongan is one of the many languages in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan and Tahitian, for example. Together with Niuean, it forms the Tongic subgroup of Polynesian. By comparing Tongic to the other subgroup, Nuclear Polynesian, it is possible to reconstruct the phonology of Proto-Polynesian, the theoretical source of the Polynesian languages.

Tongan has retained the original proto-Polynesian *h, but has merged it with the original as /h/. (The /s/ found in modern Tongan derives from *t before high front vowels). Most Polynesian languages have lost the original proto-Polynesian glottal stop /q/; however, it has been retained in Tongan and a few other languages including Rapa Nui.

The Tongan language is an important language worldwide. It is vital to understand the general nature and specific idiosyncrasies of Tongan. For over 10 years Global Interpreting has provided outstanding Tongan translators, over the phone, face to face and conference interpreters nation and worldwide.