Tongan Language Week
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