Tonsea language
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Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
| Tonsea | |
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| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | northern Sulawesi |
Native speakers | (90,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txs |
| Glottolog | tons1240 |
Tonsea (Tonsea’) is an Austronesian language of the northern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Minahasan branch of the Philippine languages.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Tonsea at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
Further reading
[edit]- WATUSEKE, F. S. “MINAHASISCHE LIEDEREN UIT TONSÉA’”. In: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde 136, no. 2/3 (1980): 353–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27863311.
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