Tonsawang language

Tonsawang
Native to Indonesia
Region northern Sulawesi
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tnw
Glottolog tons1239[2]

Tonsawang, also known as Tombatu, is an Austronesian language of the northern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Minahasan branch of the Philippine languages.[3]

References

  1. Tonsawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tonsawang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.


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