Tombo
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Tombo can refer to:
- Tombo (Registry)Tombo (Registry)The Tombo was a land registry compiled by the Portuguese to provide a detailed statement of property ownership and tax obligations in Ceylon. First compiled in 1615, they are still sometimes used to settle land disputes....
a Portuguese registry for land and royal revenue. - Tombo language, one of the Dogon languagesDogon languagesThe Dogon languages are spoken by the Dogon of Mali. There are about 600,000 speakers of a dozen languages. They are tonal languages, most like Dogul having two tones, some like Donno So having three....
. - A character of that name in Kiki's Delivery ServiceKiki's Delivery Serviceis a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film produced, written, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the fourth theatrically released Studio Ghibli film.The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1989...
- The JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
word for dragonflyDragonflyA dragonfly is a winged insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera . It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body...
, とんぼ.