Tonsawang

E638878

Tonsawang is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tonsawang people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tonsawang canonical 3
Tonsawang-Toundanow 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsTo Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification) NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
ethnicGroup Tonsawang people NERFINISHED
ethnologueCode tnw
glottologCode tons1249
glottologName Tonsawang NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Tonsawang Minahasan NERFINISHED
Toundano NERFINISHED
Toundanow
hasDomainOfUse home and local community
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Minahasan languages
hasLinguisticResearch documented in comparative studies of Minahasan languages
hasLoanwordsFrom Indonesian NERFINISHED
Manado Malay NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNeighboringLanguage Tombulu NERFINISHED
Tondano NERFINISHED
Tonsea NERFINISHED
Tontemboan NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (described in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory
hasSmallerDomainOfUse limited use in formal education
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift toward Indonesian
hasSpeakerCommunity Christian-majority population in North Sulawesi
hasTypologicalFeature Austronesian alignment patterns (described in literature)
hasWordOrder verb–initial tendency
iso639-3Code tnw
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubgroup Minahasan languages NERFINISHED
partOf Minahasa linguistic area NERFINISHED
primaryLocation Tonsawang area of North Sulawesi NERFINISHED
region Southeast Minahasa Regency NERFINISHED
spokenBy Tonsawang people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
North Sulawesi NERFINISHED
subclassOf Minahasan language NERFINISHED
subjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Minahasan languages
usedIn daily communication within Tonsawang communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pasan language glottologName Tonsawang
Tonsawang language hasAlternativeName Tonsawang
this entity surface form: Tonsawang-Toundanow