| Gorontalo | ||||
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| Bahasa Hulonthalo | ||||
| Spoken in | Indonesia | |||
| Region | Gorontalo, Sulawesi | |||
| Native speakers | 900.000[1] (date missing) | |||
| Language family |
Austronesian
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| Writing system | Latin | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-2 | gor | |||
| ISO 639-3 | gor | |||
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The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is a Philippine language spoken in Gorontalo Province (Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, southern coast) by the Gorontalo people.[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 900.000 speakers of Gorontalo in 1989.[3]
| lab | alv. | pal. | vel. | glot. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| plosive | p b | t d | d̠ | c ɟ | k ɡ | ʔ |
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| sonorant | w | l r | j | h | ||
Consonant sequences include NC (homorganic nasal–plosive), where C may be /b d t d̠ ɟ ɡ k/. Elsewhere, /b d/ are relatively rare and only occur before high vowels. /d̠/, written ⟨ḓ⟩ in the literature, is a laminal post-alveoral coronal stop that is indeterminate as to voicing. The phonemic status of [ʔ] is unclear; if [VʔV] is interpreted as vowel sequences /VV/, then this contrasts with long vowels (where the two V's are the same) and vowel sequences separated by linking glides (where the two V's are different).