Endangered Languages Project - White Gelao

White Gelao

^{[aka Tú Du, Telue, Southwestern Gelao]}

Classification: Tai-Kadai

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severely endangered

White Gelao (self-designation: Telue), together with Red Gelao (gir), Green Gelao (giq), and Gao Gelao (gqu), forms the Gelao subgroup of Tai-Kadai.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tú Du, Telue, Southwestern Gelao, Gelao, White, 仡佬語多羅方言, 白仡佬
CLASSIFICATION		Tai-Kadai, Kadai, Ge-Chi
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		giw
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Case studies of endangered languages in China (中國瀕危語言個案研究)” . Qingxia Dai (戴慶廈) · Minzu Publisher (民族出版社)

Severely endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<6,000 (including all the Gelao languages)
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
579,357 (as of 2000 census; including all the ethnic Gelao)
ELDERS
mostly
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
only 1% of the entire Gelao population (White Gelao, Red Gelao, Green Gelao and Gao Gelao) speak their own Gelao languages.

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: neutral ~ negative
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: no
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: no
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: 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.

PLACES: China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 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.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,220
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: 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.

PLACES: Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, China; Vietnam

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province; Longlin County, Guangxi Province; Malipo County, Yunnan Province, and nearby in Vietnam.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2002 (Edmondson)

PLACES: Vietnam; China

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

26.212, 105.478; 26.305, 105.743; 26.669, 105.768; 26.559, 104.960

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Information from: “Case studies of endangered languages in China (中國瀕危語言個案研究)” . Qingxia Dai (戴慶廈) · Minzu Publisher (民族出版社)