Gola people

Gola or Koya
Total population
	304,000
Regions with significant populations
Liberia	278,000
Sierra Leone	26,000
Languages
	Gola, English, Krio
Religion
	Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Kissi, Sherbro, Temne, Baga, Limba

The Gola or Gula are a West African ethnic group who share a common cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western/northwestern Liberia and Eastern Sierra Leone. The Gola language is an isolate within the Niger–Congo language family. As of 2015^[update], it is spoken by about 278,000 people.

The name Gola is a possible source for the name of the Gullah,^[1] a people of African origin living on the islands and coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina, in the southeastern United States.

^ Michael A. Gomez (9 November 2000). Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8078-6171-4.

[Gomez2000-1] Michael A. Gomez (9 November 2000). Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8078-6171-4.

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