Gorontalo

GOR

threatened

Alternate Names: Gorongtalo, Guarantala, Gunongtello, Holontalo, Hulontalo

Dialects: East Gorontalo, Gorontalo Kota, Limboto (Limbotto), Tilamuta, West Gorontalo (Kwandang).

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Greater Central Philippine
Gorontalo-Mongondow
Gorontalic

Demographics: 1,000,000 (2000 census).

Language Use: Noted shift to Indonesian [ind] in youth.

Language Development: NT: 2000.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Muslim.