Galoli language

The Galoli, or Galolen, are a people of East Timor with a population of about 50,000, primarily along the northern coast of the district of Manatuto. To the west lies the Mambai people. There is an old colony on the southern coast of Wetar island, the Talo, who speak the Talur dialect.

Galoli
Galolen
Native toEast Timor
RegionManatuto District
Native speakers
11,000[1] (2010 census)[2]
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Talur
Language codes
ISO 639-3gal
Glottologgalo1243[3]
Distribution of Galoli mother tongue-speakers in East Timor. Galoli is also spoken on the south coast of Wetar Island in Indonesia, just off the top of the map.

Their language, also known as Galoli, is one of the Timor–Babar group of Austronesian languages. It is one of the national languages designated by the constitution of East Timor. Because the area was used as a trading center for different cultures, there are many foreign loan words in the vocabulary, principally from Moluccan and Malay languages. Although it is not spoken by as many people as other national languages, it was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in the district of Manatuto and thus has become fixed in grammars and dictionaries.

Dadu'a is erroneously listed in some sources as a dialect of Galoli (e.g. Glottolog), but actually represents a transplanted population of the Atauro dialect of Wetarese.

Alphabet

A B D E G H I K L M N O R S T U '

The ' mark represents a glottal stop, [ʔ].[4]

gollark: The "what people pay for stuff" theory of value presumably.
gollark: What does tend to happen is that Bar having less and Foo having more results in inequality of rights or whatever too.
gollark: I should make that an actual memé.
gollark: Can't misallocate resources if you don't have resources!
gollark: Good of everyone to use the non-heretical dark theme!

References
  1. Excluding 3,150 Dadu'a speakers per the census
  2. Galoli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Galoli-Talur". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Galoli language, Omniglot.
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