Tonga
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Chinese
[zho] A macrolanguage. 2,000 in Tonga. Non-indigenous.
English
[eng] Users: 32,430 in Tonga, all users. L1 users: 730 in Tonga (2019 World Factbook). L2 users: 31,700 (2019). Status: 1 (National). De facto national working language, considered co-official with Tongan [ton]. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
Niuafo’ou
[num] ’Eua and Tongatapu divisions; Ongo Niua division: Niuafo’ou island. Users: 1,000, all users. L1 users: 500 (2015 S. Tuilautala). L2 users: 500 (2015 S. Tuilautala). Ethnic population: 1,500 (2011 census). 523 on Niuafo’ou (2010), many elsewhere. Status: 6b (Threatened). Autonym: Niuafo’ou. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, East Uvean-Niuafo’ou.
Tongan
[ton] Users: 106,000 in Tonga (2017). Total users in all countries: 189,740. Status: 1 (National). De facto national language, considered co-official with English [eng]. Alternate Names: Tonga. Autonym: Faka Tonga. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Tongic.