Tontemboan language

Tontemboan
Native toIndonesia
RegionNorth Sulawesi
Native speakers
(150,000 cited 1990)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tnt
Glottologtont1239

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.