Gola language
| Gola | |
|---|---|
| Native to | western Liberia & along the border with Sierra Leone |
| Ethnicity | Gola |
Native speakers | unknown (110,000 cited 1989–1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
gol |
| Glottolog |
gola1255[2] |
Gola is an erstwhile Atlantic language of Liberia. It is not closely related to other languages and appears to form its own branch of Niger–Congo.[3]
References
- ↑ Gola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gola". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Guillaume Segerer & Florian Lionnet 2010. "'Isolates' in 'Atlantic'". Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyon, Dec. 4