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The Gallong or Galo language is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Tani group, spoken by the Galo people. Its precise position
within Tani is not yet certain, due primarily to 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 normal definitions, although
prospects for its survival are better than most similarly-placed languages in the world. The major Galo dialects are Pugo,
spoken around the district capital Aalo; Lare, spoken to the south of Aaloo; and a dialect provisionally describable as North-Western,
spoken in the North-West near the Tagin area. There may be additional Galo dialects further to the north, which remains largely
un-researched. Subdialects are numerous and often correspond to regional or clan groupings. Neighbouring languages include
Assamese, Nepali, Bodo, Mising, Minyong, Hills Miri, Tagin, Nishi, Bori, Pailibo, Ramo and Bokar. Like most central and eastern
Tani languages, Galo is largely synthetic and agglutinating. Two primary lexical tones are present – High and Low – which
may reflect two Proto-Tani syllable tones; in modern Galo, the surface TBU (Tone-Bearing Unit) is the usually polysyllabic
phonological word. A robust finite/non-finite asymmetry underlies Galo grammar, and clause chaining and nominalization 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 postpositions, relator nouns, classifiers,
an extremely large system of aspectual suffixes, and a rich set of constituent-final particles coding functions related to
epistemological status (such as evidentiality), discourse/pragmatic status, modality, and other related functions. Case-marking
is basically accusative; ergativity has not been found. |
Names (more)[en] Gallong language[ru] Гало |
Language type : Living
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