Posted by Polynesian truth on November 23, 2006 at 00:44:40:
In Reply to: Polynesian History & People : Tongan Heritage with Samoans and Eastern Polynesia. posted by Maui on November 23, 2003 at 21:47:08:
Tonga is the last and the only remaining kingdom that lies in the South Pacific. Tonga was never conquared or colonized by any foreign rulers. Scientists from all over the world come to Tonga to study the pure bloodline of the Tongan people. Tongans tend to marry Tongans. Because of this, they can trace the origin of the Tongan ancestors. We Tongans are smarter because we used our brain. Our Tongan king saved us from any foreign rulers where else your chiefs and king didn't save Samoa from America, Germany, Great Britain and New Zealand.
Tongans are the viking warriors of the South Pacific. Tonga is a united nation and always will be to the days. Because we are the true warriors of the Pacific.
Samoa was never united as a nation. We saved our asses while you'se kissed white asses from Western rulers such as New Zealand and America.
Look at Western Samoa and America Samoa.
Huh, Tongan language is the oldest Polynesian language because we tend to keep the language the same where else the Samoans changed their words and languages to suit their own culture, traditions and customs.
The true fact is that Tongans are from Tonga not from Samoa or Fiji.
Small percentages of Tongans are mixed and that is less than one percent.
Large percentages of Samoans are mixed of Asians and Palangis.
Of course there are reasons why Tongans and Samoans hate each other. But there always will be a debate over the origin of the Polynesians. Not everyone agrees with you.
As a Tongan I am proud to a pure blood Tongan.
Face the fact you'se Samoans were never united as a nation. We Tongans are the truelist Polynesian warriors in the Pacific. Many Fijians, Samoans and other island nation have Tongan bloodlines in them. Fijians and Tongans don't hate eachother because we both face the truth. Unlike you'se can't move on and still dwell in the past.
Here's the result
Tongan is one of the many languages in the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, along with Hawai'ian, Mā,,ori, Sā,,moan and Tahitian, for example. Together with Niuean, it forms the Tongic subgroup of Polynesian. The Polynesian languages have developed from an ancient language referred to as the Proto-Polynesian language, it seems that in Tongic the phonology has changed the least.
Tongan has preserved most of the phonemes of proto-Polynesian, most notably /k/, /ŋ,,/, and /f/, while generally one of them has shifted to / ' / in most other Polynesian languages. Examples in the table below.
Concerning the phonemes which did not shift to / ' /, some of them may have shifted further (/t/ to /k/, /f/ to /h/, /v/, or /w/, and /ŋ,,/ to /n/). The /f/ change represents a historical change between Western Polynesian languages (such as Tongan) and Eastern Polynesian languages (such as New Zealand Mā,,ori). The last change turns /faf/ into /wah/. New Zealand Mā,,ori also preserves proto-Polynesian /f/, except before back vowels /o/ and /u/, where it has changed in to /h/.
2. Tongan has a glottal stop too, but it is a phoneme preserved from proto-Polynesian, which has disappeared in most other languages. However, one Eastern Polynesian language, Rapa Nui, has also retained the original / ' / in some words.
3. /r/ and /l/ were distinct phonemes in proto-Polynesian, as they are still in Fijian, but in most other Polynesian languages they have merged, mostly to /r/ in East Polynesian languages, and mostly to /l/ in West Polynesian languages. However, Tongan has kept the distinction by keeping the /l/ but losing the /r/. This loss may be quite recent. The word 'Lua', meaning 'two', is still found in some placenames and archaic texts. 'Marama' (light) thus became 'maama', and the two successive 'a's are still pronounced separately, not yet contracted to 'mā,,ma'. On the other hand 'toro' (sugarcane) already has become 'tō,,' (still 'tolo' in Sā,,moan).
4. Tongan is one of the very few Polynesian languages where the so called definitive accent still occurs. Rotuman is another example.
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