Galo community in Arunachal Pradesh

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Members of the Galo community in Arunachal Pradesh can recall the name of their ancestor from 20 generations, and this is made possible by their system of naming.

Galo community:

At about 1.5 lakh people, the Galos are one of the 26 major communities of Arunachal Pradesh, and dominate West Siang, Lepa Rada and Lower Siang districts.
They have a big population in East Siang, Upper Subansiri and Namsai districts too.
The Galos belong to the Tani group inhabiting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, besides Tibet.
They trace their common origin to a primeval ancestor, Abotani.

Uniqueness

But unlike the Mising (Assam), Adi, Apatani, Nyishi and Tagin, the other communities, only the Galos maintain genealogy through given names.
They have a system of prefixing the second syllable of a father’s name to that of a son, who passes on the suffix in his name to his son.
Hence they can trace the names of ancestors from the first syllable or prefix of our names.
They have nine sub-clans: Angu, Bagra, Doji, Kamnyi, Karso, Naho, Ngomdir, Rasa or Rame, and Yorsi or Kamsi. The numbers of sub-clans of the other clans vary.

Source: THE HINDU

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