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Tongan Language Week

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Malo e lelei.  It's Tongan Language Week all week. Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga. Did you know? With a population of over 106,000 people, Tonga is an archipelago of 169 islands (of which 36 are inhabited). The 175th largest country in the world in terms of area, Tonga consists of 748 square kilometres of land scattered over roughly 700,000 square kilometres of ocean. Do you know about  Coconet TV , a national treasure and fantastic classroom resource. What could we do in maths classrooms? Taha .   Learn the Tongan number system 0= noa     1= taha     2= ua    3= tolu     4= fā,  5= nima    6= ono    7= fitu    8= valu     9= hiva 10 is  hongofulu  (hoh-ngoh-foo-loo)   100 is  teau  (teh-ah-oo) every other number is made up of the words for 0-9 with 3 exceptions sixteen is one six taha ono twenty becomes two zero – ua noa 54 is nima valu exceptions   22  uo ua,   55  nime nima  and 99  hive hiva Ua .  Explore linear relationsh