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Tondano language

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Native to
  
Indonesia

Native speakers
  
(92,000 cited 1981)

Glottolog
  
tond1251

Language family
  
Austronesian languages

Region
  
Northeast Sulawesi

ISO 639-3
  
tdn

Writing system
  
Latin script

Tondano (also known as Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou, and Toulour) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast Sulawesi, Indonesia and in the United States. It is most similar to the Tombulu language and to the Tonsea language.

Dialects

There are three main dialects of the Tondano language: Tondano proper, Kakas or Ka'kas, and Remboken.

References

Tondano language Wikipedia