Gorontalo–Mongondow languages

Gorontalo–Mongondow
Geographic
distribution:
Gorontalo and North Sulawesi provinces, Sulawesi
Linguistic classification: Austronesian
Subdivisions:

The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of Philippine languages spoken in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The languages are,

Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) place Gorontalo in a Greater Central Philippine family. However, a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] supports Gorontalo as the family most closely related to the Philippine languages, but outside the Philippine languages proper.

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