Green Gelao
[别称 Kláo, Hoki Gelao, Cape Draping Gelao]语系:Tai-Kadai
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语系:Tai-Kadai
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Green Gelao (self-designation: Hoki), together with White Gelao (giw), Red Gelao (gir), and Gao (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)
only 1% of the entire Gelao population (White Gelao, Red Gelao, Green Gelao and Gao Gelao) speak their own Gelao languages.
The Green Gelao has the most speakers among four Gelao languages.
Mandarin
Everyone is able to speak Mandarin; in a few villages, Green Gelao remains the primary language in non-official domains and learned natively by preschool children; people who married into these villages also learn Green Gelao.
Zhenning (鎮寧), Guanling (關嶺), Qinglong (晴隆) and Zhenfeng (貞豐) of western Guizhou, and Zunyi (遵義) and Huairen (懷仁) counties of northern Guizhou; Sanchong (三沖) in Longlin (隆林) county of Guangxi
信息不完整 “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
This group is one of the components of the Gelao nationality of China and the Kíolao ethnic group of Vietnam.
Central Guizhou Province from north to south - Guanling County, and others in Renhuan and Qinglong counties. There is one village with two elderly speakers in Longlin County, Guangxi Province