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{{Short description|Timoric language spoken in East Timor}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Galoli
| nativename       = ''Galolen''
| states           = [[East Timor]], [[Indonesia]]
| region           = [[Manatuto District]], [[Wetar Island|Wetar]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|10530|2}}<ref>Excluding 3,150 Dadu'a speakers per the census</ref>
| date             = 2010 census
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = Austronesian
| fam2             = [[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
| fam3             = [[Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages|Central–Eastern]]
| fam4             = [[Timoric languages|Timoric]]
| fam5             = Wetar–Galoli
| dia1             = Talur
| minority         = [[East Timor]]
| iso3             = gal
| glotto           = galo1243
| glottorefname    = Galoli-Talur
| map              = Galoli.png
| mapcaption       = Distribution of Galoli mother tongue-speakers in East Timor. Galoli is also spoken on the south coast of [[Wetar Island]] in Indonesia, just off the top of the map.
| ethnicity        = [[Galoli people]]
}}

The '''Galoli''', or '''Galolen''', are a people of [[East Timor]] with a population of about 50,000, primarily along the northern coast of the district of [[Manatuto District|Manatuto]]. To the west lies the [[Mambai people (Timor)|Mambai]] people. There is an old colony on the southern coast of [[Wetar]] island, the Talo, who speak the Talur dialect.

Their language, also known as Galoli, is one of the [[Timor–Babar languages|Timor–Babar]] group of [[Austronesian languages]]. It is one of the [[national language]]s designated by the constitution of East Timor. Because the area was used as a trading center for different cultures, there are many foreign loan words in the vocabulary, principally from Moluccan and [[Malay language|Malay]] languages. Although it is not spoken by as many people as other national languages, it was adopted by the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in the district of [[Manatuto District|Manatuto]] and thus has become fixed in grammars and dictionaries.

''Dadu'a'' is erroneously listed in some sources as a dialect of Galoli (e.g. [https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dadu1237 Glottolog]), but actually represents a transplanted population of the Atauro dialect of [[Wetarese language|Wetarese]].

==Alphabet==
'''A B D E G H I K L M N O R S T U ' '''

The {{angbr|'}} mark represents a glottal stop, {{IPA|gal|ʔ|}}.<ref>[https://www.omniglot.com/writing/galoli.htm Galoli language], Omniglot.</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [[Paradisec]] open access [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC2/items/TGAL101 short description of Galoli]
* Paradisec open access [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC2/items/TGAL102 Galoli texts]
* Paradisec open access [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AC2/items/TGAL103 Galoli phrases]

{{Central Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of East Timor}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}

[[Category:Timor–Babar languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Timor-Leste]]
[[Category:Languages of Indonesia]]


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