Tontemboan

Tontemboan
Spoken in	Sulawesi ( Indonesia )
speaker	150,000 ( SIL , 1990)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Filipino languages Minahasa languages Tontemboan ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tnt

Tontemboan is a language spoken in northern Sulawesi around Langoan, Sonder, Suluun and Amurang. It is one of the Filipino languages of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . Other names and dialects are: Makela'i-Maotow, Makelai, Matana'i-Maore ', Matanai, Pakewa, Sonder, Tompakewa, Tompaso, Tountemboan.

Individual evidence

^ Tontemboan at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)
↑ Sneddon, 1970, p. 16.

Sneddon, JN, The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes, Oceanic Linguistics, IX: 1, pp. 11-36, 1970.

[1] Tontemboan at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)

[2] Sneddon, 1970, p. 16.