Glossary
| Ako | learn, education, school |
| Akoako ngaue | practice |
| ‘Eiki toputapu | sacred and highest ranking ruler |
| Faiako | teacher |
| Faka’apa’apa | respect |
| Fakafanongo | listen |
| Fakatātā | demonstrate |
| Fakatonutonu | monitored, corrected |
| Fatu | strands use to begin the weave |
| Fe’unu | strips or strands of pandanus used for weaving |
| Feveitokai’aki | reciprocity |
| Fonua | land, people |
| Fono | community gathering, meeting |
| Hala fakama’ufatu | the run that binds or makes the mat stronger |
| ‘Ilo | knowledge |
| Kastom | culture and tradition |
| Kaungā ala | practise together |
| Lalanga | mat-weaving |
| Lao | Law |
| Lea faka-Tonga | Tongan language |
| Lototo | humility |
| Mafana | the overt response of audience/participants when a performance/activity achieves malie, thus generating transformational change |
| Malie | the term used to express heartfelt appreciation when a task is performed beyond expectation |
| Mamahi’i me’a | loyalty |
| Motutapu | sacred island |
| Noubu & Noubebla | original tribes that populated Temotu Nendo |
| Natgu, Nalrgo, Aiwoo and Taumako-Vaeakau | indigenous languages spoken in Nendo |
| Ngaue’I | perform |
| NguzuNguzu | a traditional figurehead in Solomon Islands historically fixed to the prow of a canoe, and the name used for primary curriculum materials (story books and teachers guides) developed in 1995 and still used today |
| Pālangi | Europeans, white people |
| Pijin | an English-based creolized pidgin |
| Poto | skilled |
| Pule’anga | |
| Siofi | observation |
| Tālanga Laukonga | talking about literacy |
| Talanoa | conversation, chat, talk |
| Talanoa malie | conversation that makes sense and interesting |
| Tauhi vā | nurturing of relationships |
| Tauhi vaha’a | protecting the relationships |
| Tok stori | a relational mode of communication, widely practised in a variety of Melanesian contexts |
| Tu’I | monarch, king |
| Tu’a | commoners |
| ‘Ulungaanga faka-Tonga | Tongan culture |
| Vā | the socio-spatial connection between persons, relational concept which articulates the connectedness between people and between people and their environment |
| Wantok | one talk, a word developed to express connection in contexts where laborers from various Melanesian language groups worked together on plantations; also implies need for co-operation, allegiance and reciprocal relationships with those who speak the same language |