Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Tonsawang
Native to
Indonesia
Region
Northern Sulawesi
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Minahasan
Tonsawang
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
tnw
Glottolog
tons1239
ELP
Tonsawang
Tonsawang, also known as Tombatu,[2] is an Austronesian language of the northern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Minahasan branch of the Philippine languages.[3][4][5]
^Tonsawang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Sneddon, J. N. (1970). "The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes". Oceanic Linguistics. 9 (1): 11–36. doi:10.2307/3622930. JSTOR 3622930.
^"8 Genetic Classification of the World's Languages". A Guide to the World's Languages. 1987. pp. 275–380. doi:10.1515/9781503621336-015. ISBN 9781503621336. S2CID 244724303.
^Sneddon, J. N. (1993). "The Drift Towards Final Open Syllables in Sulawesi Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 32 (1): 1–44. doi:10.2307/3623095. JSTOR 3623095.
^Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
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