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Gorontalo–Mongondow languages

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Subdivisions:
  
Gorontalic Mongondowic

Glottolog:
  
goro1257

Geographic distribution:
  
Gorontalo and North Sulawesi provinces, Sulawesi

Linguistic classification:
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Gorontalo–Mongondow

The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of Indonesian languages spoken in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The languages are,

  • Gorontalic: Bolango, Buol, Bintauna, Gorontalo, Kaidipang, Lolak, Suwawa
  • Mongondowic: Mongondow, Ponosakan

    • Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) place Gorontalo in a Greater Central Philippine family.

    References

    Gorontalo–Mongondow languages Wikipedia
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