User talk:Tauʻolunga

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Cleaned out everything from before 2009

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Language

Are you Tongan or not? Can you speak, read and write in fluent Tongan? If you can I request you prove it. Haanofonua 04:13, 16 Sānuali 2012 (UTC)

ʻikai mo ʻikai --Tauʻolunga 06:06, 17 Sānuali 2012 (UTC)

File:Hernandia nymphaeifolia.jpg

Hi Tauʻolunga,
i found your picture mentioned above.
I am doing my Diplom about the Hernandiaceae and would be very happy if you could tell me something more about the picture. Where does this plant grow? Do you think it is a natural habitat or artificial planted? It would be very nice to hear from you.

cheers, --Boronian 21:46, 9 Sānuali 2009 (UTC) (homewiki account: de:benutzer:boronian)

This plant is quite common along the beaches of the islands here, growing wild. --Tauʻolunga 05:39, 10 Sānuali 2009 (UTC)

are there other species of this genus on these islands? --Boronian 14:27, 10 Sānuali 2009 (UTC)

Copied from Yuncker: --Tauʻolunga 06:47, 11 Sānuali 2009 (UTC)

Genus Hernandia Plumier
Hernandia moerenhoutiana Guillemin, Sci. Nat. Bot., Ann. II, 7: 187, 1837.
Large tree, up to 10 or 12 m. tall. Leaves alternate, oval-oblong or somewhat obovate, obtuse or somewhat pointed, base acute, entire, up to 10 cm. or more long and 8 cm. wide, palmately three-nerved, midrib strongly branched upward, petiole up to 6 cm. or more long. Flowers cream-colored, in loose, many-flowered, long-stalked, axillary clusters near ends of branches; fruit enclosed in a white or reddish, fleshy, balloonlike vesicle.
Tongatapu: Moseley; edge of Niutōua village, Mar. 2, 1953, Yuncker 15109.
ʻEua: Lister; in ʻOhonua village, Apr. 2, 1953, Yuncker 15630.
Nomuka: on knoll near beach short distance above village, Apr. 30, 1953, Yuncker 15812.
Vavaʻu: Crosby; in clearing on slope leading to lagoon at Vaihoi, May 26, 1953, Yuncker 16198.
Occurs throughout Tonga. Society Islands to Fiji.
Tongan name: pipitui.
The flowers and the fruit are used for leis and ornamentation, and the wood for general construction purposes.
Hernandia ovigera Linnaeus, in Stickman, Herb. Amb., 14, 1754.
Medium to large tree, up to 20 m. or more tall. Leaves alternate, ovate, acute, peltate near base, entire, up to 20 cm. long and nearly as wide, five- to nine-nerved from petiole, petiole up to about as long as blade. Flowers monoecious, white, numerous in long-stalked, axillary and terminal, cymose clusters; fruit dry, somewhat ribbed, enclosed in an enlarged, fleshy, white or reddish, balloon like vesicle with circumscissile opening.
Tongatapu: Home.
ʻEua: in forest on seaward terrace near Lokupo, Mar. 27, 1953, Yuncker 15533.
Lifuka: in seaside thicket north of Pangai village, Apr. 24, 1953, Yuncker 15711.
Vavaʻu: Crosby.
Niuatoputapu: between Hihifo and Vaipoa, Dec. 7, 1951, Hürlimann 373.
Grows throughout Tonga, usually near the sea. From Indo-Malaysia to Polynesia.
H. peltata Meisn. in Hemsley’s and Burkill’s lists.
Tongan names: fotulona, puko.
The trunks are used for dugout canoes and the timber for banana shooks and general building purposes.

thank you a lot, i did not read this work before. since it is 50 years ago he wrote it: can you affirm the distributions he mentions? (if you are interested in this: H. peltata is now known as H. nymphaeifolia (Kubitzki 1970).)--Boronian 14:33, 11 Sānuali 2009 (UTC)

One of those plants you do not see often. Unless you go to look for it, then suddenly they are everywhere. --Tauʻolunga 05:31, 12 Sānuali 2009 (UTC)

mistake

hi ko eku hingoa ko TEVITA KAVAEFIAFI tamasii ou a A'KIHEUHO KAVAEFIAFI tamasii ia o TEVITA KAVAEFIAFI aka late (MALUKAVA) kataki pe kau kii fk tonutonu pe ae kii mea sii oku asi oku matapule ko a a malukava kia kalaniuvalu oku hala ia oku ika ke tonu ia kataki pe teke hanga o tamatei ia fkmolemole ka iai ha mea uke tokanga ki ia pea ke tohi mai ki hoku email address koe tkavaefiafi@yahoo.com.au malo aupito.

Naʻe tala mai ia ʻe Malukava (Vaikona). Ka, kapau ʻoku hala, tohi mai ʻa e meʻa tonu, --Tauʻolunga 06:01, 4 ʻAokosi 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hi. Could you explain this, please? Thanks in advance and regards, Wutsje 07:32, 26 Maʻasi 2009 (UTC)

Please keep Ugandean discussions on the Uganda wiki, when they have nothing to do with Tonga. Would they be grateful to see their site being used as a discussion forum for other languages? Having said that, where the deletion notice would have been on its place on a normal page, on a user's page it is indeed somewhat too heavyhanded. --Tauʻolunga 07:39, 27 Maʻasi 2009 (UTC)

Tongan

Hi! How are you? I want to ask if you know any course of tongan on the Net. --Hakule 15:20, 2 Mē 2009 (UTC) Fine, OK. No – except those 1 page courses here and there which teach: hello, bye, I am, … --Tauʻolunga 05:23, 3 Mē 2009 (UTC)

A little help

Hi! I'm a Hungarian Wiki-editor, my name is Norbert Kiss. I'm very proud of my village, Ecser, and we made right now more than 90 translations about it. Because I'm a linguist and I really love the Polinesian languages, it's very important to me to have translation in these languages too (unfortunately I did not get the Maori translation yet...). Could you make me a Tongan translation? If you want, I could make for you a Hungarian translation about any Tongan related article for huwiki. Thank you for your help. The English version of Ecser is here. hu:User:Eino81

Eoser will not be done before Hungary is done, which will not be done before Europe is done, which will not be done before the world is done. At least not by me. --Tauʻolunga 05:04, 6 Sune 2009 (UTC)

Help for Copyvio

Kolovai/en

this article text is copy from en:Kolovai. but original english wikipedia article is copyvio from [1] . so please delete the this article. thanks.--CNekm 11:43, 19 Sune 2009 (UTC)

done --Tauʻolunga 06:05, 20 Sune 2009 (UTC)

request for help

Greetings Tauʻolunga!Could I ask you to translate en:Qin Shi Huang(listed in 1000 vital articles) and en:Wuhan(a chinese city,my hometown) into lea faka-Tonga ?You may shorten them as possible to contain only the basic informations,one or two sentences are enough. If you want me to translate any article into Chinese or Vahcuengh,contact me without hesistation. Thank you very much!--Biŋhai

same as all the other placenames above: no. sorry. --Tauʻolunga 06:36, 15 Siulai 2009 (UTC)

Thank you all the same:)--Biŋhai 11:58, 18 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

What programs do you use to make images?

Hello Tonga, I have been admiring the images that you add to articles. What software do you use to create the astronomy images, such as this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outside_view_of_precession.jpg Thanks in advance and have a peaceful Saturday. 192.117.111.61 18:33, 24 Siulai 2009 (UTC)

It seems that my login in my own language wikipedia does not count here! I am user "dotancohen" on the English and Hebrew wikipedias.

Cinema 4D was used, with putting a starmap as a texture on a sphere. --Tauʻolunga 08:55, 1 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

Translate the template

Could I please ask you to translate the template en:Template:Infobox Country into lea faka-Tonga? --PK2 07:02, 5 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

maybe later --Tauʻolunga 06:31, 7 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

now how do you say "maybe later" in lea faka-Tonga? --PK2 06:58, 8 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

mahalo pē ʻaho ʻe taha --Tauʻolunga 04:14, 8 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

Thanks again!

Just a little note to say huge amounts of thanks for the absolutely gorgeous images on, for example, the Equinox page. Even including different trees for the different latitudes! So cute! They're brilliant original work, and perfectly illustrate a tricky concept. Just awesome.

Translation of a short story

Hi my friend!

I would like to request something from you. Yes, translation. I hope, it's not a bad thing for you. Some years ago I wrote a (really) short story about a lonely man (actually symbolized the Saami nation). I translated into some languages and I thought, it would be great to have it more, like also in Tongan :) I made this page, the English translation is somewhere there. You can put the Tongan translation there. Thank you again! Sorry for my disturb... :( - hu:User:Eino81

maybe later --Tauʻolunga 06:26, 24 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

OK, I will wait it very. The Oceanic languages are very important to me :) --Eino81 21:21, 25 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

After reading it: not 'maybe', just 'never' --Tauʻolunga 06:33, 26 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

en:wiki help

Hello there, over on en:wikipedia we have an article in Tongan about a composer, [2]. We're a bit stuck for what to do with it since Tongan speakers are somewhat rare over there. The best solution we could come up with is to perhaps transwiki over here. So basically, do you want it? Is it even worth having? Thanks.--Jac16888 (talk) --Jac16888 14:40, 25 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

delete --Tauʻolunga 06:36, 26 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

cheers--Jac16888 09:07, 26 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

Glotal stop in Tongan (fakauʻa)

Hi! I just want to ask you how do you have to pronounce the fakauʻa in Tongan. It's the same in other polinesian languages? --85.54.130.191 12:30, 29 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

Yes, although the presence (or lack) of the Tongan glottal tends to be more distinct than in most other Polynesian languages, which (therefore) do not bother too much about it.--Tauʻolunga 00:12, 30 ʻAokosi 2009 (UTC)

Request for help, please

Dear Tauʻolunga, nice to meet you! I'm wondering if you would be so kind to help translate a very short-stub version of 3-4 sentences of this article for the wonderful Tongan Wikipedia? Thank you very much for any advice or help you could offer. I hope to hear from you. Sincerely--Brezza del mare 06:56, 1 Tisema 2009 (UTC)

sorry, no time --Tauʻolunga 07:27, 8 Tisema 2009 (UTC)

Thank you all the same:)--Brezza del mare 14:44, 8 Tisema 2009 (UTC)

Do you know a dictionary of Tongan language?. Please an answer --El estremeñu 20:45, 7 Tisema 2009 (UTC)

Churchward, see links at en:Tongan_language --Tauʻolunga 07:27, 8 Tisema 2009 (UTC)

villages of Nukuʻalofa

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Dear friend, since I was working on some Tonga articles in the German Wikipedia, I have found many useful maps created by you, some of which I already transferred to Wikimedia commons.

I also found the map of Maʻufanga. Please explain what is red and what is yellow on this map (I believe yellow is open land without buildings that belongs to the village).

Can you also explain the location of the other two villages of Nukuʻalofa: Kolomotuʻa and Kolofoʻou. It is said that they are separated by the street Hala Vahaʻa kolo, but I don't know which one is west of this road and which one is east (the presidential palace is just east of Hala Vahaʻa kolo.

Oh, if you make new maps, please upload them to commons, thank you.

Greetings from Germany,--12:22, 23 Sune 2010 (UTC)

kolo (kulokula) + tofiʻa (engeenga) = red for town, yellow for the still somewhat agricultural areas.

Kolomotuʻa is west, Kolofoʻou east of the Hala Vahaʻakolo, but unfortunately that is only one of the very few borderlines where everybody agrees about, therefore I never arrived to make an official map for the rest of town.

No one is interested in Tonga maps, so why should I burden commons with it? But you may. --Tauʻolunga 05:40, 24 Sune 2010 (UTC)

That is certainly not true. The large Wikipedias like en, de and fr want to be quite comprehensive. It is especially the policy of the German-language Wikipedia that every named island and village is relevant, worldwide, and can have it's own article, provided that a minimum of information about it can be researched.

Now I was working on Nomuka, and read that it has a large salt lake named Ano Ava. However, on your map it seems to be called Puho Ana, or Loto Tefisi. Please explain. Greetings,--Ratzer 15:31, 24 Sune 2010 (UTC)

Puhoʻava, Loto and Tefisi are islands, see Nomuka. Ano ava is correct, but it just means swamp hole or low-water hole and is thus halfway a description and a real name. Likewise the southern spike, which is called 'Mamaha' (= shallow) --Tauʻolunga 05:40, 25 Sune 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, it always helps to understand the language. Unfortunately, Google translate does not yet offer translations from Tongan or any other Polynesian language.--Ratzer 08:50, 25 Sune 2010 (UTC)

Niuatoputapu

Hi again, we know from different sources that there are three villages on Niuatoputapu:

1. Hihifo
2. Vaipoa
3. Falehau

But here is an old map that shows a fourth village, close south of Hihifo, named Matavai. Is this correct?--Ratzer

Matavai means watereye, probably it refers to the seainlet at that place. Never heard of it being an official name though.

please mark all pictures you copy into commons as ready for delete here. --Tauʻolunga 06:46, 26 Sune 2010 (UTC)

What is the code to mark files for deletion? So far, I transferred the following maps and images from to -> commons:

• File:Nomuka.gif
• File:Tongatapu.gif
• File:ʻEuafoʻou.gif
• File:Vavaʻu.gif
• File:Lifuka.gif
• File:ʻEua.gif
• File:Niuatoputapu.gif
• File:Niuafoʻou.gif

Greetings, Ratzer--Ratzer 06:58, 28 Sune 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, {{db-kole|commons}} will do --Tauʻolunga 06:30, 29 Sune 2010 (UTC)

Administrative Subdivisions of Tonga

Dear Tauʻolunga, today I would like to ask you the Tongan Names of the different levels of administrative subdivisions of Tonga, and the titles of their leaders:

1. Divisions: On the top level, there are five Divisions that are led by Governors. What is division and governor in Tongan? (singular and plural)

not really a fixed generic name, vahe, ngaahi vahe is used, although more common for some finer divisions; ʻeiki kōvana, houʻeiki kōvana, only the singular can be abbreviated to kōvana.

1. Districts: On the middle level, there are 23 Districts (Fakavahefonua), led by district officers (Kau ‘Ofisa Fakavahefonua). Please verify these terms (singular and plural)

vahefonua, ngaahi vahefonua; ʻofisa fakavahefonua, kau ʻofisa fakavahefonua

1. Villages or Towns: On the lowest level, there are about 155 towns or villages (kolo), led by town officers (Kau ‘Ofisa Kolo). Please verify these terms (singular and plural).

kolo, ngaahi kolo; ʻofisa kolo, kau ʻofisa kolo

Thank you very much. Greetings,--Ratzer 07:38, 8 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

https://www.pmo.gov.to/Local-Government/ --Tauʻolunga 07:51, 9 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, and what is the governor of a divison called? (singular and plural). Thank you, & greetings--Ratzer 10:25, 9 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

a governor is a governor --Tauʻolunga 06:55, 10 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Foa

Hi again! The island of Foa has six villages, according to census sources. The map only shows four. A more detailed map shows five. I still don't know where the sixth village is located (Ha'afakahenga), do you know? Is it possible to update the map (I already transferred it to commons and marked it for deletion here). Greetings,--Ratzer 06:57, 23 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Haʻafakahenga and Haʻateihosiʻi are both part of Faleloa, and only people actually living there probably know. I do not know myself where Haʻafakahenga ends and Faleloa starts, so I have been somewhat vague in the map. But apparently the Tongan government sees those locations as seperate entities because they are in different estates. (see Foa). --Tauʻolunga 07:08, 24 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, well now that you showed me where Haʻafakahenga is, it is clearly separated from Faleloa as you can see on the satellite image. So in what way are Haʻafakahenga and Haʻateihosiʻi part of Faleloa, when they are geographically separate settlements (as the satellite image shows) and at the same time separate administrative villages (kolo), as the census documents show? Greetings,--Ratzer 16:00, 24 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

I think you have been misguided by this map if you think to see Haʻafakahenga and Haʻateihosiʻi seperately. Compare with the Hunsicker map. Those buildings inbetween Haʻateihosiʻi and Lotofoa may be only a government station. It is Tuʻipelehake estate. I think that Haʻafakahenga stretches to up to the second road to the east in what is named Faleloa on the Hunsicker map. But someone would have to go there and ask to be sure. --Tauʻolunga 07:49, 25 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Moʻungaʻone

Whenever you feel like it, you might want to translate the additions I made in English to the Moʻungaʻone article.--Ratzer 20:13, 24 Siulai 2010 (UTC)

Please, could you translate en:Podolsk into faka Tonga? Naturally if you have available time!

Good day to you! Could you, please, translate into faka Tonga the article, containing two-three sentences, about this city in Russia? I’d like to thank you in advance :)--Переход Артур 11:01, 15 Fēpueli 2011 (UTC)

no --Tauʻolunga 06:53, 16 Fēpueli 2011 (UTC)

Anyway, thanks:)--Переход Артур 11:26, 16 Fēpueli 2011 (UTC)

File:Canavalia_sericea.jpg

Hello Tauʻolunga

can you contact me via en:User:Ringpicker 05:36, 3 ʻAokosi 2011 (UTC) about use of your image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canavalia_sericea.jpg

rgds

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Wikipedia talk:Mumui Tupouʻila Mapatongiamanu

Hi, isn't the content should be moved somewhere? Wikipedia:Fale fakataha, for example? Bennylin 13:16, 31 ʻOkatopa 2011 (UTC)

hm, maybe only the latest entry --Tauʻolunga 07:37, 1 Nōvema 2011 (UTC)