The Gorontalo language (also called Hulontalo) is a language spoken in Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia by the

Gorontalo people Gorontalo or Hulondalo people are the native people of the northern part of Sulawesi. They are the most populous ethnicity in the Minahasa Peninsula. The Gorontalo people are predominantly Muslim. Their native language is the Gorontalo language. ...

Dialects

Musa Kasim et al. (1981) give five main dialects of Gorontalo: east Gorontalo,

Limboto Limboto is a town in Indonesia and the administrative centre of Gorontalo Regency Gorontalo is a regency of Gorontalo Province, Indonesia, on the island of Sulawesi. It was established in 1959 under Law Number (''Undang-Undang Nomor'') 29/1959, bu ...

, Gorontolo City, west Gorontalo, and Tilamuta.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant sequences include NC ( homorganic nasal–plosive), where C may be . Elsewhere, are relatively rare and only occur before high vowels. , written in the literature, is a laminal post-alveoral coronal stop that is indeterminate as to voicing. The phonemic status of is unclear; if is interpreted as vowel sequences , then this contrasts with long vowels (where the two V's are the same) and vowel sequences separated by linking glides (where the two V's are different).

Vowels

Gorontalo has five vowels.

Notes

References

* * * * Gorontalo–Mongondow languages Languages of Sulawesi {{GCPhilippine-lang-stub