Gorontalo language

The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is a language spoken in Gorontalo Province (Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, southern coast) by the Gorontaloan people.[2] Dialects of Gorontalo are East Gorontalo, Gorontalo City, Tilamuta, Limboto and West Gorontalo.

Gorontalo
Bahasa Hulontalo
Native toIndonesia
RegionGorontalo, Sulawesi
Native speakers
1 million (2000 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-2gor
ISO 639-3gor
Glottologgoro1259

Phonology

Consonants
labialalveolarpalatalvelarglottal
nasal mnɲŋ
plosive p bt dd̠c ɟk ɡʔ
implosive ɓɗ
sonorant wl rjh

Vowels
front central back
high i u
mid e o
low a

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).

References
  1. Gorontalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. "The Gorontalo Language". The linguist list. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  • 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.
  • Little, Jr., John A. 1995. Gorontalo. In Darrell T. Tryon (ed.), Comparative Austronesian dictionary: an introduction to Austronesian studies Volume 1. 521-527. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

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