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Language code: gay

Technical information about ISO 639 language code gay

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The table below provides technical details for the Gayo language, designated by the gay code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

gay

Name

Gayo

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
LutLuesSerbejadi–Lukup
Related languages
AlasKluetAcehnese
Key facts
Spoken by roughly a quarter-million people in the mountainous interior of northern SumatraUses the Latin alphabet, usually without diacritics, for contemporary writingShows low mutual intelligibility with neighboring Acehnese and Batak tongues despite shared loanwordsHighland isolation has preserved vocabulary and phonology that are conservative among Western Malayo-Polynesian languagesRich oral literature includes sung poetic debates called “Didong”.
Sample phrase

Sase, senapak kéh?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Gayo language, identified by the code gay, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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