Gorontalo
Facts
- Language: Gorontalo
- Alternate names: Gorongtalo, Guarantala, Gunongtello, Holontalo, Hulontalo
- Language code: gor
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Gorontalo-Mongondow, Gorontalic
- Number of speakers: 1000000
- Script:
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Introduction
Gorontalo is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Sulawesi, Gorontalo Province, north peninsula.
Dialects
East Gorontalo, Gorontalo Kota, Limboto (Limbotto), Tilamuta, West Gorontalo (Kwandang).
The Gorontalo Verb
Verblist
- hii-hiipo -- to blow
- h-um-oyoŋo -- to cry
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mee duŋga -- to come
- mo-balé -- to turn
- mo-botulo -- to climb
- mo-dehu -- to fall
- mo-deŋoto -- to bite
- mo-detu -- to sew
- mo-dihu -- to hold
- mo-diilo -- to sniff, smell
- mo-duŋuhu -- to hear
- mo-hilawo -- to breathe
- mo-hundapo -- to chew
- mo-huwabu -- to yawn
- mo-kalaja -- to work
- mo-lihuto -- to tie up, fasten
- mo-lobuʔo -- to pound, beat
- mo-lolaŋi -- to swim
- mo-loʔiya -- to say
- mo-lulawoto -- to choose
- mo-mate -- to kill
- mo-mikiilaŋi -- to think
- mo-milohu -- to see
- mo-mitodu -- to squeeze
- mo-mituʔo -- to stab, pierce
- mo-mobu -- to burn
- mo-mo-mataŋo -- to swell
- mo-motahu -- to shoot
- mo-mubohu -- to hit
- mo-mulo -- to plant
- mo-mutaʔe -- to split
- mo-mutu -- to cut, hack
- mo-muʔo -- to open, uncover
- mo-nula -- to spit
- moŋa -- to eat
- mo-ŋahu -- to scratch
- mo-ŋali -- to dig
- mo-ŋalupo -- to hunt
- mo-ŋilu -- to drink
- mo-ŋindopo -- to suck
- mo-ohe -- to fear
- mo-po-mahulo -- to throw
- mo-reekeni -- to count
- mo-tali -- to buy
- mo-taʔo -- to steal
- mo-ti-balato -- to lie down
- mo-tihuloʔo -- to sit
- mo-ti-tuuʔo -- to hide
- mo-tohiilopo -- to dream
- mo-tubu -- to cook
- mo-tuluhu -- to sleep
- mo-tuʔo -- to vomit
- mo-ʔiʔi -- to laugh
- naʔo-naʔo -- to walk
- t-im-ihulo -- to stand
- tolo-tolohu -- to flow
- t-um-omboto -- to fly
- t-um-umulo -- to grow
- tumu-tumulo -- to live, be alive
- ʔo-taawa -- to know, be knowledgeable