Gamkonora language

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Gamkonora
Native to Indonesia
Region Halmahera
Native speakers
(1,500 cited 1987) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gak
Glottolog gamk1238

Gamkonora is one of the North Halmahera languages used in West Halmahera. It is spoken in the region around Mount Gamkonora, where its speakers are mostly concentrated.

Gamkonora is closely related to Sahu. They are included in the same branch of the North Halmahera languages. [2]

References

  1. Gamkonora at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.