Alternate Names: Adi, Adi-Gallong, Adi-Galo, Gallong, Galo, Galong
Dialects: Karka, Lare, Pugo. Lare is the main dialect and is accepted by all Galo.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 30,000. 62,000 (2001 census). A few older adult monolinguals. L2 users: Used as L2 by some commerce people from Bihar and Nepal who have settled in Adi areas.
Language Use: Village, home. All ages. Nearly all also use Assamese [asm]. English [eng] is spoken by the educated and the young. Nearly all speak some Hindi [hin]. Also Hindi [hin] is used with the military.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 60%. More men can read than women but more girls and women are learning. Radio programs. Grammar. NT: 2008.
Typology: SOV; postpositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before and after noun heads; relatives after noun heads or without; question word initial; maximum prefixes 2, maximum suffixes 4–5; affixes indicate case of noun phrase; causatives and comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV patterns; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: India
Other Comments: A Scheduled Tribe. Traditional religion, Buddhist, Christian.