White Gelao
[别称 Tú Du, Telue, Southwestern Gelao]语系:Tai-Kadai
·高危
语系:Tai-Kadai
·高危
White Gelao (self-designation: Telue), together with Red Gelao (gir), Green Gelao (giq), and Gao Gelao (gqu), forms the Gelao subgroup of Tai-Kadai.
信息不完整 “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)
579,357 (as of 2000 census; including all the ethnic Gelao)
mostly
only 1% of the entire Gelao population (White Gelao, Red Gelao, Green Gelao and Gao Gelao) speak their own Gelao languages.
Mandarin or other neighboring languages
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.
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.
信息不完整 “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
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.
Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province; Longlin County, Guangxi Province; Malipo County, Yunnan Province, and nearby in Vietnam.