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Brookvale Public School. (n.d.). Tongan dictionary project. Available at http://www.brookvaleps.nsw.edu.au/PROJECTS/Dictionary/Main_Menu.html.
This project presents a small online Tongan-English, English-Tongan dictionary with audio. What is truly exciting about this project is that it was brought to fruition by 10-12 year old children of Tongan ancestry who live in Sydney, Australia and attend Brookvale Public School. While there were adult mentors and supervisors, the youngsters are the ones who have done the research and the bulk of the work to create this dictionary.

Broschard, Jürgen. (1997). Why Tongan does it differently: Categorial distinctions in a language without nouns and verbs. Linguistic Typology, 1, 123-165.

Shumway, Eric B. (1977). Ko e fakalāgilāngi: The eulogistic function of the Tongan poet. Pacific Studies, 1(1), 25-34. Available at http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/PacificStudies&CISOPTR=1280&REC=1.

Shumway, Eric B. (1988). Intensive course in Tongan: With numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary (Revised ed.). Laie, HI: The Pacific Institute, 1988. [includes 14 audio CDs]

Thompson, Richard and Thompson, ‘Ofa. (2000). The student’s English-Tongan and Tongan-English dictionary (American ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Friendly Isles Press.

Digital Dialects. (n.d.). Tongan language learning games. Available at http://www.digitaldialects.com/Tongan.htm.

Tu‘inukuafe, Edgar. (1992). A simplified dictionary of modern Tongan (2nd ed.). Auckland, New Zealand: Pasifika Press.