In the Turco-Tartar dialect a heath is called tala or tschol.

Samoa's foreign debt reached the billion tala mark late last year according to a report.

Toddy is likewise procured from the lontar or Borassus flabellifer, the tala of the Hindus.

And in the end, the lawyers walk away as winners pocketing thousands of tala in legal fees, he said.

According to the Samoa Observer, the journalist could be heard during his livestream report offering a police officer 20 tala.