Tonjon language

Tonjon
Native to Ivory Coast
Ethnicity Djimini people
Extinct (date missing)
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Western Mande
      • Central
        • Manding–Jogo
          • Jogo–Jeri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tjn
Glottolog tonj1246[1]

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. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tonjon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.