Tondano (also known as ''Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou,'' and ''Toulour'') is an
Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu ...
, Indonesia. It is most similar to
Tombulu and to
Tonsea
Tonsea (Tonsea’) is an Austronesian language of the northern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Minahasan branch of the Philippine languages
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc ( ...
.
Dialects
There are three main dialects of the Tondano language: Tondano proper, Kakas or Ka'kas, and Remboken.
See also
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Minahasan languages
The Minahasan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken by the Minahasa people in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. They belong to the Philippine subgroup.
Considerable lexical influence comes from Spanish, Portuguese, and Te ...
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Languages of Indonesia
More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia. These figures indicate that Indonesia has about 10% of the world's languages, establishing its reputation as the second most linguistically diverse nation in the world after Papua New Guin ...
References
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Further reading
* Brickell, Timothy C., and Stefan Schnell (2017). "Do grammatical relations reflect information status? Reassessing preferred argument structure theory against discourse data from Tondano". In: ''Linguistic Typology'' 21: 177–208. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2017-0005
* Brickell, Timothy C. (2018). "Reduplication in Tondano and Tonsawang". In: ''NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia'' 65: 81–107.
* Warouw, Maya Pinkan.
Leksikon Bahasa Daerah Tondano In: ''Jurnal Duta Bahasa'' Vol 1, No 1 (2022): 1-8.
* WATUSEKE, F.S. (1972) "Kolano' in the Tondano Language". In: ''Papers in Borneo and Western Austronesian Linguistic''s, no. 2. Pacific Linguistics A-33: 123-129.
* WATUSEKE, F.S. “TONDANO AND NOT TOULOUR”. In: ''Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde'' 143, no. 4 (1987): 552–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27863875.
External links
* Hertz, Regina & Lee, Sandra (2017).
Assessment of the vitality of the Tondano Language (Sulawesi, Indonesia)'. SIL electronic survey report
Languages of Sulawesi
Minahasan languages
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