Tonsawang language

Tonsawang
Tonsawang
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Northern Sulawesi
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1981)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Minahasan Tonsawang; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tnw
Glottolog	tons1239
ELP	Tonsawang

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.^[2]

Orthography[]

Alphabet[]

a - [ä]
b - [b]
e - [ə]
è - [ɛ]
g - [g]
i - [i]
j - [d͡ʒ]
k - [k]
l - [l]
m - [m]
n - [n]
ng - [ŋ]
o - [o̞]
p - [p]
r - [ɾ]
s - [s]
t - [t]
u - [u]
w - [w]
' - [ʔ]^[3]

References[]

^ Tonsawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
^ "Tonsawang language, alphabet, and pronunciation". Omniglot. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

External links[]

ELAR collection: Tonsawang: a collaborative multimedia project documenting an endangered language of North Sulawesi deposited by Timothy Brickell

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[e18-1] Tonsawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.

[3] "Tonsawang language, alphabet, and pronunciation". Omniglot. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

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