Gola (language)

Gola
Spoken in	Liberia , Sierra Leone ( West Africa )
speaker	166,000 (2015)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Atlantic languages South Atlantic languages Mel; ; Gola ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gol

The Gola language is the West Atlantic language of the Gola people , spoken by a total of 166,000 people in Liberia and Sierra Leone .

153,000 speak the language in Liberia between the Mano and Saint Paul Rivers (1991: 99,300) and 13,000 in Sierra Leone.

The language is to be distinguished from the Badyara called Gola and the Gola dialect of Mumuye in Nigeria . The dialects of Gola itself are: de (deng, todii), managobla (gobla), kongbaa, kpo, senje (sene), tee (tege) and toldil (toodii).

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↑ SIL International: gol
^ ^A ^b ^c Languages of Liberia, Sierra Leone Languages. Ethnologue.com, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
↑ Larry Vanderaa: A survey for Christian Reformed World Missions and churches in West Africa. Christian Reformed World Missions, Grand Rapids, MI 1991. Quoted from: Ethnologue 18th edition 2015 .

[1] SIL International: gol

[ethnologue-2] A ^b ^c Languages of Liberia, Sierra Leone Languages. Ethnologue.com, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2020.

[3] Larry Vanderaa: A survey for Christian Reformed World Missions and churches in West Africa. Christian Reformed World Missions, Grand Rapids, MI 1991. Quoted from: Ethnologue 18th edition 2015 .