Tondano language

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Tondano
Native toIndonesia
RegionNortheast Sulawesi
Native speakers
(92,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tdn
Glottologtond1251

Tondano (also known as Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou, and Toulour) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is most similar to Tombulu and to Tonsea.[1]

Dialects[]

There are three main dialects of the Tondano language: Tondano proper, Kakas or Ka'kas, and Remboken.[2]

See also[]

  • Minahasan languages
  • Languages of Indonesia

References[]

  1. ^ a b Tondano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Sneddon 1975, p. 1
  • Brickell, Timothy C. (2014). A grammatical description of the Tondano (Toundano) language (PhD thesis). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/516057.
  • Sneddon, James N. (1975). Tondano Phonology and Grammar. Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 38. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-B38. hdl:1885/146483. ISBN 0-85883-125-2.

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