Galo in India

Speakers

29,246

Type

Location

Galo in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Galo in India

Size

29,246

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
North East India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
http://scertarunachal.nic.in/UserPortal/DownloadBook.aspx?Id=7
http://scertarunachal.nic.in/UserPortal/DownloadBook.aspx?Id=9

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some Galo language sentences, A Documentary Movie in Galo tribe's language and other videos are available in Galo language.
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/64787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU25b8INfLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-EFmSO35Y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUbOFz5ENL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75d9PLncBL0

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio files are available in Galo language.
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/2409.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/2409.zip

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
Linguistic descriptions, dictionaries and other books are available in Galo language
Galo-English dictionary with English-Galo index
https://www.academia.edu/7944033/Galo_English_Dictionary_First_International_Edition

Mark Post. 2007. A Grammar of Galo. Bundoora, VIC: La Trobe Univ. (Doctoral dissertation, LaTrobe University; 947pp.)
https://taninet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Post_PhD_A-Grammar-of-Galo_As_Submitted.pdf

Das Gupta, Kamalesh. 1972. Galo language guide. Shillong: North-East Frontier Agency. 76pp.

Baruah, B. K. 1995. The Gallong and the Mishing language - some common morphological aspects. Resarun: journal of the Research Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh XXI. 7-12.

Srivastava, L. R. N. 1962. The Gallongs. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. xii+128pp.

Adi and Galo (Abors and Galongs), George Dunbar, A Mittal Publications, ISBN 9788183245883 year : 2019

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Galo is written with Latin script.

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Arunachal Pradesh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

29246
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Adi+Gallong%2FGallong

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
District/Village

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion