Endangered Languages Project - Tombelala

Tombelala

Classification: Austronesian

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threatened

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Celebic, Kaili-Pamona
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ttp
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Mbelala
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (1995 SIL)

PLACES: Indonesia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Central Sulawesi, Bungku Tengah subdistrict. 4 villages.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Indonesian is much used as a second language and puts pressure on it, and the Tombelala consider themselves as Pamona who speak the large Pamona language, though Tombelala has only 66–76 per cent lexical similarity to the various Pamona dialects.

DATE OF INFO: 1995

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Sulawesi

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken on the far northern parts of the east coast of the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing