Social:Tonjon language
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Short description: Extinct Mande language of Côte d'Ivoire
| Tonjon | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ivory Coast |
| Region | Vallée du Bandama District |
| Ethnicity | Djimini people |
| Extinct | since the 1950s[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tjn |
| Glottolog | tonj1246[2] |
Tonjon is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Tonjon is an extinct Mande language once spoken by blacksmiths among the Djimini Senoufo of Ivory Coast. It was closely related to Ligbi, another blacksmith language.
References
- ↑ "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". 2010. p. 191. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tonjon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tonj1246.
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