Tonsawang

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

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tonsawang canonical 8
Thiang 1
Tonsawang-Toundanow 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
belongsTo Western Malayo-Polynesian (traditional classification)
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
ethnicGroup Tonsawang people
ethnologueCode tnw
glottologCode tons1249
glottologName Tonsawang
hasAlternativeName Tonsawang Minahasan
Toundano
Toundanow
hasDomainOfUse home and local community
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Minahasan languages
hasLinguisticResearch documented in comparative studies of Minahasan languages
hasLoanwordsFrom Indonesian
Manado Malay
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNeighboringLanguage Tombulu
linked to: Tombulu’

Tondano
Tonsea
Tontemboan
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
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubgroup Minahasan languages
partOf Minahasa linguistic area
primaryLocation Tonsawang area of North Sulawesi
linked to: North Sulawesi
region Southeast Minahasa Regency
spokenBy Tonsawang people
spokenIn Indonesia
North Sulawesi
subclassOf Minahasan language
linked to: Minahasan languages
subjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Minahasan languages
usedIn daily communication within Tonsawang communities
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

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

Pasan language glottologName Tonsawang
Tonsawang language hasAlternativeName Tonsawang-Toundanow
linked to: Tonsawang
Tonsawang glottologName Tonsawang
Tonsea hasNeighboringLanguage Tonsawang
Tonsawang people ethnicity Tonsawang
Atwot hasDialect Thiang
linked to: Tonsawang