Austronesian · ISO 639-3 gor
Gorontalo Language Bahasa Hulontalo
Gorontalo is an Austronesian language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gorontalo is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gorontalo
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Greater Central Philippine
- Gorontalo-Mongondow
- Gorontalic
- Gorontalo
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Gorontalo language
Gorontalo (Bahasa Hulontalo) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 447th most spoken language in the world — just behind Gamo (1.1 million) and ahead of Hainanese (1.1 million). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Gorontalic group within the Greater Central Philippine branch.
Where is Gorontalo spoken?
Gorontalo is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Indonesia (1.2 million).
Gorontalo is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gorontalo is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Filipino, Cebuano, Tagalog, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray (Philippines) and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gor.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.