Gorontalo–Mongondow languages

The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Gorontalo–Mongondow
Geographic
distribution		Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and Central Sulawesi provinces, Sulawesi
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
  • Gorontalic
  • Mongondowic
Glottologgoro1257[1]

Languages

The Gorontalo–Mongondow languages are divided into two branches:[2]

Classification

Similarites between Mongondow and the languages of the Philippines were already recognized in the first half of the 20th century.[4] Noorduyn (1982) presented phonological and morphological evidence for a close connection between Gorontalo and Mongondow,[5] while the full extent of the subgroup including all other Gorontalic languages was established by Usup (1986).[2] Blust (1991) has shown that the Gorontalo–Mongondow languages link up with many languages of the central and southern Philippines in the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.[6] The following table exemplifies the close relationship, listing Greater Central Philippine innovations which are found in Mongondow (representing the Gorontalo–Mongondow languages) and Tagalog (the northernmost member of the Greater Central Philippine subgroup):

Mongondow Tagalog Meaning
modaliʔ-daliʔmadalíʔ"quick"
modolommadilím"dark"
duguʔdugóʔ"blood"
obuʔubó"cough"
pugadpúgad"nest"
tapaʔsápaʔ"brook"
tubigtúbig"water"

Reconstruction

The lexicon and phonology of Proto-Gorontalo-Mongondow has been reconstructed by Usup (1986).[2] Proto-Gorontalo-Mongondow pronouns have been reconstructed by Lobel (2011).[7]

gollark: Arch > *
gollark: btw arch
gollark: Most decent devices have IPS screens.
gollark: Not really, sorry.
gollark: My cheap Acer business laptop has a... trackpad.

See also

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gorontalo–Mongondow". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Usup, Hunggu Tadjuddin. 1986. Rekonstruksi proto-bahasa Gorontalo-Mongondow. Doctoral dissertation. Jakarta: Universitas Indonesia.
  3. Moseley, Christopher (2008). Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-1357-9640-2.
  4. Esser, S.J. (1938). "Talen". Atlas van Tropisch Nederland. Blad 9a. Batavia: Topografische Dienst.
  5. Noorduyn, J. (1982). "Sound changes in the Gorontalo language". In Halim, A.; Carrington, L.; Wurm, S.A. (eds.). Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 2: Tracking the travellers. Pacific Linguistics, C-75. Canberra: Australian National University. pp. 241–261.
  6. Blust, Robert (1991). "The Greater Central Philippines Hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 30 (2): 73–129. doi:10.2307/3623084. JSTOR 3623084.
  7. Lobel, Jason (2011). "Pronominal Number in Mongondow-Gorontalo". Oceanic Linguistics. 50 (2). doi:10.1353/ol.2011.0029. JSTOR 41337067.


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