Gorontalo language
| Gorontaloan | |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Hulontalo | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Gorontalo, Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 1 million (2000 census)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 |
gor |
| ISO 639-3 |
gor |
| Glottolog |
goro1259[2] |
The Gorontaloan language (also called Hulontalo) is a language spoken in Gorontalo Province (Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, southern coast) by the Gorontaloan people.[3] Dialects of Gorontalo are East Gorontalo, Gorontalo Kota, Tilamuta, Suwawa, and West Gorontalo.
Phonology
| 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).
Sources
- Steinhauer, H. (1991). "Problems of Gorontalese phonology." In H. A. Poeze and P. Schoorl (Ed.), Excursies in Celebes: een bundel bijdragen bij het afscheid van J. Noorduyn als directeur-secretaris van het Konninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkendkunde, 325-338. KITLV Uitgeverij.
References
- ↑ Gorontaloan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gorontalo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "The Gorontalo Language". The linguist list. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
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