Gorontaloan people

Gorontaloan or Hulandalo / Hulandalo people are the native people to the northern part of Sulawesi. They are the most populous ethnicity in the Minahasa Peninsula. The Gorontaloans are predominantly Muslim.^[2] Their native language is Gorontaloan.

The Gorontaloans have traditionally been concentrated in the provinces of Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and the northern part of Central Sulawesi.

Etymology

A circumcision event of the Gorontalo people during the Dutch East Indies.

The name Gorontalo probably derives from much terms, such as:^[3]

• Hulontalangio, the name of a tribe who lives in an area
• Hua Lolontalango, means a cave used for two-way travel
• Hulutalangi, means noble
• Huluo lo Tola, means a place where Snakehead reproduces
• Pongolatalo or Pohulatalo, means a waiting place
• Gunung Telu, means the third mountain
• Hunto, means a place always flowed with water

Gorontaloans sometime refer themselves as Hulandalo / Hulantalo, a term well known in Gorontalo and North Sulawesi, which usually used to refer the region of Gorontalo or the native people from Gorontalo.

References

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