Tondano language explained
Tondano (also known as Tolou, Tolour, Tondanou, and Toulour) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tondano area of northeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is most similar to Tombulu and to Tonsea.
There is some lexical influence from European languages, such as Dutch, as well as Malay, Tombulu, and Ternate.
Dialects
There are three main dialects of the Tondano language: Tondano proper, Kakas or Ka'kas, and Remboken.
See also
References
- Bibliography:
- Brickell . Timothy C. . A Grammatical Description of the Tondano (Toundano) Language . 2014 . PhD . La Trobe University . 1959.9/516057 . free .
- Book: Sneddon, James N. . Tondano Phonology and Grammar . 1975 . Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University . 0-85883-125-2 . Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 38 . Canberra . 10.15144/PL-B38 . 1885/146483 . free . free . registration .
- Watuseke . F.S. . Tjatatan pada "Kamus Djolong (Sederhana) Bahasa Tondano-Indonesia" . 1958 . Bahasa dan budaja . VI . 4 . 19–24 . Indonesian .
- Watuseke . F.S. . Sketsa tatabahasa Tondano . 1985 . Jakarta . Indonesian.
Further reading
- Brickell, Timothy C., and Stefan Schnell (2017). "Do grammatical relations reflect information status? Reassessing preferred argument structure theory against discourse data from Tondano". In: Linguistic Typology 21: 177–208. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2017-0005
- Brickell, Timothy C. (2018). "Reduplication in Tondano and Tonsawang". In: NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 65: 81–107.
- Warouw, Maya Pinkan. "Leksikon Bahasa Daerah Tondano" In: Jurnal Duta Bahasa Vol 1, No 1 (2022): 1-8.
- WATUSEKE, F.S. (1972) "Kolano' in the Tondano Language". In: Papers in Borneo and Western Austronesian Linguistics, no. 2. Pacific Linguistics A-33: 123-129.
- WATUSEKE, F.S. “TONDANO AND NOT TOULOUR”. In: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde 143, no. 4 (1987): 552–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27863875.
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