Gorontalo language

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Gorontalo
Spoken in: Indonesia 
Region: Gorontalo area, Sulawesi
Total speakers: 900.000[1]
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Nuclear MP
   Borneo-Philippines
    Northern Sulawesi
     Mongondow-Gorontalo
      Gorontalic
       Gorontalo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: gor
ISO 639-3: gor

The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is spoken Indonesian Gorontalo area (Northern Sulawesi, southern coast of northern peninsula) by Gorontalo ethnic group. ISO 639-2 code of Gorontalo is gor (formerly also GRL[[2]]). There is no ISO 639-1 code for Gorontalo. Dialects of Gorontalo are East Gorontalo, Gorontalo Kota, Tilamuta, Suwawa, and West Gorontalo. There were 90.0000 speakers of Gorontalo in 1989[3].

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