Tontemboan language

Tontemboan
Native toIndonesia
RegionNorth Sulawesi
Native speakers
(150,000 cited 1990)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tnt
Glottologtont1239
Tontemboan Bible, by M. Adriani-Gunning and J. Regar, published in 1907 by Firma P.W.M Trap, Leiden, Holland.

Tontemboan is an Austronesian language, of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a Minahasan language, a sub-group of the Philippine languages.[2]

Some lexical influence originates from European and other non-Minahasan languages, such as Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Malay, and Ternate.[3]

  1. ^ Tontemboan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Liao (2008), p. 3
  3. ^ Schwarz (1908b)