Vocabulary
| Phoneme correspondences | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoneme | Proto-Polynesian | Tongan | Samoan | Wallisian | English | |||||
| /ŋ/ | *taŋata | tangata | tagata | tagata | person | |||||
| /s/ | *sina | hina | sina | hina | grey (of hair) | |||||
| /ti/ | *tiale | siale | tiale | siale | flower | |||||
| /k/ | *waka | vaka | vaʻa | vaka | canoe | |||||
| /f/ | *fafine | fefine | fafine | fafine | woman | |||||
| /ʔ/ | *matuqa | motuʻa | matua | matua | parent | |||||
| /r/ | *rua | ua | lua | lua | two | |||||
| /l/ | *tolu | tolu | tolu | tolu | three | |||||
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