Tonsea language

Tonsea
Tonsea
Native to	Indonesia
Region	northern Sulawesi
Native speakers	(90,000 cited 1989)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Minahasan North Northeast Tonsea; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	txs
Glottolog	tons1240

Tonsea (Tonsea’) is an Austronesian language of the northern tip of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Minahasan branch of the Philippine languages.^[2]

References

^ Tonsea at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Adelaar, K. Alexander & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.