The Tolai are the indigenous people of the Gazelle Peninsula and the Duke of York Islands of East New Britain in the New Guinea Islands region of Papua New Guinea. They are ethnically close kin to the peoples of adjacent New Ireland and tribes like the Tanga people and are thought to have migrated to the Gazelle Peninsula in relatively recent ...

The Tolai language, or Kuanua, is spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province.

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"Tolai" is the modern name for the indigenous people who live within a radius of about 32 kilometers of the port town of Rabaul in the northeast corner of New Britain known as the Gazelle Peninsula. In the past they had no inclusive name for themselves, and early Roman Catholic missionaries introduced the name "Gunantuna" (meaning the "true ...

Tolai may refer to The Tolai language, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea; The Tolai people, the speakers of this language

Tolai is a member of the Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea. In 1991 there were about 81,000 speakers of Tolai, which is also known as Kuanua, Blanche Bay, Gunantuna, New Britain Language or Tuna.

Living for the most part in small local communities, none of which lies much more than twenty miles from the modern port town of Rabaul, the Tolai are a populous group by Melanesian standards—by most recent estimates about 120,000; by those same standards they are also an unusually affluent and sophisticated group who, despite the seeming ...

The Tolai are the indigenous people of the Gazelle Peninsula and the Duke of York Islands of East New Britain in the New Guinea Islands region of Papua New Guinea.

Tolai Religious Beliefs. "Spirits of the air" are benign and their help is sought by those seeking inspiration in the composition of a new song, the design of costumes, or the choreography for a dance to be performed at a ceremony.

Tolai Traders, missionaries, and others began to converge on the Gazelle Peninsula in the 1870s, and in 1884 it was annexed to form part of the German empire in New Guinea. Climate, soils, and the magnificent natural harbor offered by Blanche Bay combined to make it ideally suited for the establishment of a colony built around a plantation economy.