Gorontalo-Mongondov languages
| Gorontalo-Mongondov languages | ||
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Spoken in |
Indonesia , North Sulawesi | |
| speaker | 2.2 million | |
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The Gorontalo-Mongondow languages form a branch of the Filipino languages of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . The group of seven languages is spoken in Gorontalo and North Sulawesi.
The individual languages are:
- Gorontalo : Bolango , Buol , Bintauna , Gorontalo , Kaidipang , Lolak , Suwawa
- Mongondow : Mongondow , Ponosakan
Adelaar and Himmelmann (2005) see Gorontalo in the group of the central Filipino languages .
Individual evidence
- K. Alexander Adelaar, Nikolaus Himmelmann: The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.