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Preferred term

gayGayo  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Gayo Language is the spoken language of about 180,000 people (1989) in the mountain region of North Sumatra around Takengon, Gayo Lues, Bener Meriah, Southeast Aceh, Genteng, and Lokop. It is classified as belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages, but is not closely related to other languages.

Entry terms

  • Gayo language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gay

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • gay

ISO 639-3 code

  • gay

Notation

  • gay

In other languages

  • gayo

    French

  • Gayo
  • Gayo

    German

  • gayo

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • gayo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gay

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