Social:Tonjon language

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Short description: Extinct Mande language of Côte d'Ivoire
Tonjon
Native toIvory Coast
RegionVallée du Bandama District
EthnicityDjimini people
Extinctsince the 1950s[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Central
        • Manding–Jogo
          • Jogo–Jeri
            • Jogo
              • Tonjon
Language codes
ISO 639-3tjn
Glottologtonj1246[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

  1. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". 2010. p. 191. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026. 
  2. 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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