White Gelao
Tú Du; Telue; Southwestern Gelao; Gelao, White; 仡佬語多羅方言; 白仡佬
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579,357 (as of 2000 census; including all the ethnic Gelao)
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only 1% of the entire Gelao population (White Gelao, Red Gelao, Green Gelao and Gao Gelao) speak their own Gelao languages.
2004
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China
26.212, 105.478; 26.305, 105.743; 26.669, 105.768; 26.559, 104.960
Liuzhi (六枝), Puding (普定), Zhijin (織金), and Shuicheng (水城) counties of Guizhou, and Moji (摩基) of Longlin (隆林) county in Guangxi Province.
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Liuzhi (六枝), Puding (普定), Zhijin (織金), and Shuicheng (水城) counties of Guizhou, and Moji (摩基) of Longlin (隆林) county in Guangxi Province.
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Mandarin is the official language and the medium for education; Mandarin is also used in daily life with outsiders or with White Gelao speakers from other villages.
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2007
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Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, China; Vietnam
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Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province; Longlin County, Guangxi Province; Malipo County, Yunnan Province, and nearby in Vietnam.
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Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province; Longlin County, Guangxi Province; Malipo County, Yunnan Province, and nearby in Vietnam.
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One of the components of the Gelao nationality of China and the Kíolao ethnic group of Vietnam. The Chinese rendering of the name of this group is Duoluo; the Vietnamese term Tu Du derives from the name used by White Gelao in Vietnam.
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Vietnam; China
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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- Proto-KraWeera Ostapirat. 2000. Proto-Kra. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 23.1: 1-251.http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/weera2000proto.pdf
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