Bolaang Mongondow language

E619187

Austronesian language Malayo-Polynesian language natural language

The Bolaang Mongondow language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Mongondow people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Mongondow language	5
Bolaang Mongondow language canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6786496 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bolaang Mongondow language
Context triple: [Kaidipang language, hasNeighboringLanguage, Bolaang Mongondow language]

A. Bolango language
The Bolango language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is closely related to other Gorontalo–Mongondow languages.
B. Tondano language
The Tondano language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tondano people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
C. Gorontalo language
The Gorontalo language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Gorontalo region of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
D. Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
E. Enrekang language
The Enrekang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Enrekang people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Bolaang Mongondow language
Target entity description: The Bolaang Mongondow language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Mongondow people in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

A. Bolango language
The Bolango language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Bolango people of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is closely related to other Gorontalo–Mongondow languages.
B. Tondano language
The Tondano language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tondano people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
C. Gorontalo language
The Gorontalo language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the Gorontalo region of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
D. Gorontalo–Mongondow languages
The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken primarily in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
E. Enrekang language
The Enrekang language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Enrekang people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ natural language ⓘ
belongsToLinguisticGroup	Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Gorontalo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mongondow-Gorontalic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	Indonesia ⓘ
endangeredStatus	vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity	Mongondow people NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottologCode	bola1246 ⓘ
glottologName	Bolaang Mongondow NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Bolaang language ⓘ Bolaang-Mongondow NERFINISHED ⓘ Mongondow language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialect	Bolaang dialect ⓘ Lolayan dialect ⓘ Passi dialect ⓘ Poigar dialect ⓘ Sangtombolang dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	affixation for verb derivation ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length absent ⓘ typical Austronesian consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSubject	Mongondow oral literature ⓘ Mongondow traditional songs ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	also exhibits VOS and SVO word orders ⓘ basic word order VSO ⓘ
ISO639-3	mog ⓘ
languageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippine subgroup ⓘ
lexicalSimilarity	shares vocabulary with other Philippine-type languages ⓘ
macroArea	Papunesia ⓘ
region	North Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenBy	Mongondow people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Bolaang Mongondow Regency NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ North Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Philippine languages ⓘ
typologicalClass	agglutinative language ⓘ head-initial language ⓘ
usedAlongside	Indonesian language ⓘ
usedIn	daily communication among Mongondow people ⓘ local oral tradition ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited