Gao language

For the dialects spoken in Mali, see Songhay languages.

Gao
Native to	Central Solomon Islands
Region	Santa Isabel Island
Native speakers	1,200 (1999)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Northwest Solomonic New Georgia – Ysabel Ysabel East Isabel Gao
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gga`
Glottolog	`gaoo1237`^[2]

Gao (also called Nggao) is an endangered Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands. Its speakers live on Santa Isabel Island.

References

↑ Gao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gao". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.