Galela language

Galela
Native to	Indonesia
Region	North Halmahera
Native speakers	(79,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	West Papuan Halmahera Galela–Tobelo Galela
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gbi
Glottolog	gale1259[2]

Galela is the most populous Papuan language spoken west of New Guinea, with some 80,000 speakers. Its dialects are Kadai (41,000), Morotai (24,000), Kadina (10,000), and Sopi (4,000). Its closest relative is the Loloda language.

Galela is spoken on the eastern side of the northern tip of Halmahera island (in Galela district and in neighbouring villages in Tobelo and Loloda districts), on Morotai Island to the north, on the Bacan and Obi islands to the south of Halmahera, and in scattered settlements along the southwest coast. All are in North Maluku province of Indonesia.

External links

• Materials on Galela are included in the open access Arthur Capell collection (AC2) held by Paradisec.

References

1. Galela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Galela". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.