Gorontalo–Mongondow languages

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The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Observed surface forms (4)


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian languages subgroup
language family
arealFeature contact with Malay and Indonesian
contact with Minahasan languages
arealGrouping Gorontalo–Mongondow languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northern Sulawesi languages
arealMacroregion Maritime Southeast Asia
branchOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
closelyRelatedTo Minahasan languages
other Philippine-type Austronesian languages
continent Asia
country Indonesia
geographicDistribution North Sulawesi
surface form: northern Sulawesi, Indonesia
glottologCode goro1272
glottologReferenceName Gorontalo
surface form: Gorontalo-Mongondow
hasMember Atinggola language
Bintauna language
Bolango language
Gorontalo language
Kaidipang language
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mongondow language

Suwawa language
hasMorphologicalFeature affixal verb morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature typical Austronesian consonant and vowel inventories
hasSyntacticFeature focus-like voice system
ISO639Scope macrolinguistic grouping (no single ISO code for subgroup)
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
linguisticClassificationLevel subgroup
locatedInTimeZone UTC+8
partOf Philippine subgroup of Austronesian
primaryCountry Indonesia
region North Sulawesi
surface form: Northern Sulawesi

Celebes
surface form: Sulawesi
researchField Austronesian linguistics
spokenIn Gorontalo
surface form: Gorontalo Province

North Sulawesi
surface form: North Sulawesi Province
status regional languages of Indonesia
subclassOf Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Philippine languages
typologicalFeature Austronesian alignment patterns
predominantly verb-initial word order
usedBy Gorontalo people
Mongondow people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Minahasan languages arealGroupWith Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages arealGrouping Gorontalo–Mongondow languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Northern Sulawesi languages
Gorontalo–Mongondow languages hasMember Gorontalo–Mongondow languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mongondow language
Greater Central Philippine languages hasMember Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
this entity surface form: Gorontalo-Mongondow languages
Austronesian languages hasSubfamily Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
Celebic languages hasSubgroup Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
this entity surface form: Tomini–Tolitoli languages