Location and Dialects
In the nineteenth century Kaidipang and its neighbor immediately to the east, Bolaang-Itang, were two small principalities along the northern coast of Sulawesi, facing the Celebes Sea (Van Doren 1860; de Hollander 1877). From a linguistic perspective, however, their speech is closely related and can be regarded as dialects of a single language. For the location of the Kaidipang language area, see sketch maps in Stokhof (1983:240) and Sneddon and Usup (1986:408) among others.
Population
Indonesian census figures for the year 2000 report a total population of 26,800 or, broken down by ethnicity, Kaidipang 8,900 and Bolangitang 17,700.
References
Doren, J. B. J. van. 1860. “De rijkjes Bolang-Mogondo, Bolang-Banka, Bintawoena, Bolang-Itam, Kaidipan, Andagile en Bwool, aan de Noord-kust van Celebes gelegen.” Chapter 2 in Bijdragen tot de kennis van verschillende overzeesche landen, volken, enz., vol. 1. Amsterdam: J. D. Sybrandi.
Hollander, J. J. de. 1877. Bolaäng Mongondou. Handleiding bij de beoefening der land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Oost-Indië, volume 2, 2nd ed., edited by J. J. de Hollander, 269–272. Breda: Koninklijke Militaire Academie.
neddon, J. N.; and Hunggu Tadjuddin Usup. 1986. Shared sound changes in the Gorontalic language group: Implications for subgrouping. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 142:407–426.
Stokhof, W. A. L. (ed.) 1983. Holle lists: Vocabularies in languages of Indonesia, vol. 7/1: North Sulawesi: Gorontalo group and Tontoli. In co-operation with Lia Saleh-Bronckhorst and Alma E. Almanar. (Materials in Languages of Indonesia, 24. Pacific Linguistics, D-62.) Canberra: Australian National University.
