Gorontalo language
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Gorontalo | |
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Bahasa Hulontalo | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Gorontalo, Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 1 million (2000 census)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
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Writing system | Latin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | gor |
ISO 639-3 | gor |
Glottolog | goro1259 |
The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is a language spoken in Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia by the Gorontalo people.[2]
Dialects[]
Musa Kasim et al. (1981) give five main dialects of Gorontalo: east Gorontalo, Limboto, Gorontolo City, west Gorontalo, and Tilamuta.
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
labial | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |||
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nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
plosive | voiceless | p | t | d̠ | c | k | ʔ |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | |||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
sonorant | plain | w | r | j | h | ||
lateral | l |
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).
Vowels[]
Gorontalo has five vowels.[3]
front | central | back | |
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high | i | u | |
mid | e | o | |
low | a |
Notes[]
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Gorontalo edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- ^ Gorontalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ "The Gorontalo Language". The linguist list. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ Little (1995), p. 523
References[]
- Steinhauer, H. (1991). "Problems of Gorontalese Phonology". In Poeze, H. A.; Schoorl, P. (eds.). Excursies in Celebes: Een Bundel Bijdragen bij het Afscheid van J. Noorduyn als Directeur-Secretaris van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkendkunde. KITLV Uitgeverij. pp. 325–338.
- Little, John A. Jr. (1995). "Gorontalo". In Tryon, Darrell T. (ed.). Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 521–527.
- Kasim, M. Musa; Wahidji, Habu; Pateda, Mansoer; Junus, Husain; Hasan, Kartin; Koem, A. P. (1981). Geografi Dialek Bahasa Gorontalo (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa – via repositori.kemdikbud.go.id.
- Joest, Wilhelm (1883). Das Holontalo: Glossar und grammatische Skizze (in German). Berlin: A. Asher & Company – via archive.org.
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