Bahasa Gayo is the spoken language of about 180,000 people (1989) in the mountain region of North Sumatra around Takengon , Genteng , and Lokon . It is classified as belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.

• SIL code: GYO
• ISO 639-2: gay

External links

• Ethnologue report