Galoli

Galoli
Spoken in	East Timor
speaker	16,266
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages; Malayo-Polynesian languages; Central Malayo Polynesian; Timor-Flores; Timor; Fabronic languages; Galoli;
Official status
Other official status in	East Timor ( national language )
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	map
ISO 639-3	gal


The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. and number of speakers of the various languages in the individual communities (as of 2015).

Proportion of Galoli native speakers in the sucos of East Timors.

The Galoli ( Lo'ok, Galole, Galolen, Glolen, Galóli ) are an ethnic group and language in East Timor with around 50,000 members, who mainly live on the north coast of the municipality of Manatuto . Some residents of Wetar's south coast also speak Galoli. They are the descendants of Timorese who founded a colony here. Her dialect Talo is still understandable for Galolis speakers.

language

Galoli is one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages . 16,266 residents of East Timor give it as their mother tongue. Since this region has been used as a trading center for many cultures, there are many borrowed words from other languages, mainly from languages of the Moluccas and Malay . The Catholic Church uses Galoli in the region and has thus established the grammar and vocabulary.

Galoli is closely related to Wetar , but less influenced by Malay than this . Both languages are each one of the 15 national languages of East Timor recognized in the constitution .

Comparison of Galoli in Manatuto and Talo in Wetar
number	Galoli (Manatuto)	Talo
1	no	no
2	irua	erua
3	itelu	etelu
4th	ihaat	ehaat
5	ilima	elima
6th	ineen	eneem
7th	ihitu	ehitu
8th	ihaa	ehaa
9	isia	esia
10	sanulu	sanulo

Web links

The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
↑ Statistical Office of East Timor, results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[Cen2015-1] Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.

[2] Statistical Office of East Timor, results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[Hull-3] The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )