Tondano language
| Tondano | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Northeast Sulawesi |
Native speakers | (92,000 cited 1981)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tdn |
| Glottolog |
tond1251[2] |
Tondano (also known as Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou, and Toulour) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast Sulawesi, Indonesia and in the United States. It is most similar to the Tombulu language and to the Tonsea language.[1]
Dialects
There are three main dialects of the Tondano language: Tondano proper, Kakas or Ka'kas, and Remboken.
References
- 1 2 Tondano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tondano". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
See also
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