Tonsea

TXS

threatened

Alternate Names: Tonsea’

Dialects: Airmadidi, Kalabat Atas, Kauditan, Likupang, Maumbi.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Minahasan
North
Northeast

Demographics: 90,000 (1989), decreasing.

Language Use: Under pressure from Manado Malay [xmm].

Language Development: Bible portions: 2005–2006.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.