| Galoli | |
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| Galolen | |
| Native to | East Timor,Indonesia |
| Region | Manatuto District,Wetar |
| Ethnicity | Galoli people |
Native speakers | 11,000[1] (2010 census)[2] |
Austronesian
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Recognised minority language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gal |
| Glottolog | galo1243 |
| ELP | Galoli |
 Distribution of Galoli mother tongue-speakers in East Timor. Galoli is also spoken on the south coast ofWetar Island in Indonesia, just off the top of the map. | |
TheGaloli, orGalolen, is an language of theEast Timorese with a population of around 50,000, mainly along the northern coast of theManatuto district. To the west lies theMambai language. There is an old colony on the southern coast ofWetar island, the Talo people, who speak the Talur dialect.
The Galoli language is one of theTimor–Babar group ofAustronesian languages. It is one of thenational languages 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 andMalay languages. Although it is not spoken by as many people as other national languages, it was adopted by theRoman Catholic Church in the district ofManatuto and thus has become fixed in grammars and dictionaries.
Dadu'a is erroneously listed in some sources as a dialect of Galoli (e.g.Glottolog), but actually represents a transplanted population of the Atauro dialect ofWetarese.
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