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