Gallong language

Galo
Native to	Arunachal Pradesh, India
Native speakers	29,000 (2011 census)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tani Western Tani Subansiri Galo
Dialects	?Karka ?Gensi Taipodia Zɨrdo Lare Pugo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	adl
Glottolog	galo1242
ELP	Galo

The Galo language is a

. Its precise position within Tani is not yet certain, primarily because of its central location in the Tani area and the strong effects of intra-Tani contacts on the development of Tani languages. It is an endangered language according to the general definitions, but prospects for its survival are better than many similarly-placed languages in the world.

Dialects

The major Galo dialects are Pugo, spoken around the district capital

.

Post (2007:46) lists a provisional classification of Galo dialects.

• Galòo
  • Karkòo?
  • Gensìi?
  • Taíi(podia)
    • (branch)
    • Zɨrdóo
      • (branch)
      • Larèe, Puugóo

Post (2013)[2] reclassified Karko as a variety of Bori.

Grammar

Like most central and eastern Tani languages, Galo is largely

are both rampant. No synchronic verb-serialization appears to exist, although what seems to have been proto-verb-serialization has developed into a very large and productive system of derivational suffixes to bound verbal roots.

Major (non-derived) lexical classes are noun, adjective and verb. Other grammatical features include

ergativity

has not been found.

Education

Galo language is taught as third language in schools of areas dominated by Galo community.[3]

See also

• Nefamese

References

Further reading

• Post, Mark W. (2007). A Grammar of Galo. PhD Dissertation. Melbourne, La Trobe University Research Centre for Linguistic Typology.