Tontemboan
Tontemboan is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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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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Words in Tontemboan
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | tow* | |
| name | Naran* | |
| eye | w3r3n* | |
| nose | NiruN* | |
| tooth | ip3n* | |
| tongue | lila7* | |
| blood | 3nda7* | |
| bone | ru7i* | |
| skin | kulit* | |
| knee | wuku* | |
| breast | susu* | |
| liver | ate* | |
| water | rano* | |
| sun | 3ndo* | |
| rain | uran | |
| stone | watu* | |
| tree | kayu* | |
| night | w3Ni* | |
| dog | asu | |
| fish | s3ra7* | |
| louse | kutu* | |
| one | 3sa* | |
| two | rua* | |
| four | epat | |
| I | aku* | |
| you | ko* | |
| we | kita* | |
| drink | 3l3p* | |
| die | pate* | |
| come | ay* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · tont1239 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · tnt