Gayo (language)

Gayo
Spoken in	Sumatra ( Indonesia )
speaker	300,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL , 2000)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Northwest Sumatra Gayo (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gay

Gayo is a language spoken by the Gayo people in northern Sumatra around Takengon , Gayo Lues , Bener Meriah , Southeast Aceh , Genteng , and Lokop . It belongs to the northwest Sumatra branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages , but is not closely related to any other language.

There are the dialects Deret, Lues, Lut and Serbejadi-Lukup.

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