Tontemboan language

Tontemboan
Tontemboan
Native to	Indonesia
Region	North Sulawesi
Native speakers	(150,000 cited 1990)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Minahasan North Tontemboan; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tnt
Glottolog	tont1239

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

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

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