Galo language

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Galo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Galo people in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tani language
Tibeto-Burman language
language
belongsToMacroArea South Asia NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Apatani language NERFINISHED
Nyishi language NERFINISHED
Tagin language NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Galo people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Adi Gallong NERFINISHED
Gallong NERFINISHED
Galo-Gallong
hasGlottocode galo1243
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
tonal language
verb-final word order
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative-accusative (predominant)
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands of speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasScriptDevelopmentSupportFrom local organizations in Arunachal Pradesh
hasStandardizationEffortBy Galo Welfare Society NERFINISHED
hasTypologicalOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isMinorityLanguageIn India NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code adl
isSpokenInDistrict Kamle district NERFINISHED
Leparada district NERFINISHED
Lower Siang district NERFINISHED
Upper Subansiri district NERFINISHED
West Siang district NERFINISHED
isSpokenLanguage true
languageBranch Tani
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
region Northeast India
spokenBy Galo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
India
usedBy Galo community in Arunachal Pradesh
usedInDomain education (primary level, limited)
local administration (limited)
oral tradition

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Tani languages hasMember Galo language