Gorontalo language
Gorontaloan | |
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Bahasa Hulontalo | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Gorontalo, Sulawesi |
Native speakers
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1 million (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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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. | ||
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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)
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Gorontalo language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |