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Telue (pinyin transcription: Duoluo 多罗; Tolo) or White Gelao is a Gelao language spoken in China and Vietnam.

Dialects

The primary dialectal areas where Telue (White Gelao) is still spoken are:

• Guizhou, China (in Liuzhi Special District): Judu 居都
• Guangxi, China (in Longlin County): Moji 磨基 (also spoken in Wantao 湾桃)
• Yunnan, China (in Malipo County): Yueliangwan 月亮湾 (also spoken in Fengyan 峰岩 and Laozhai 老寨)
• Vietnam (in Hà Giang Province)

Phonology

Duoluo has many uvular and prenasalized consonants.

Consonants

• The sound of the affricates /ts, tsʰ, dz/ are frequently close to interdental affricate sounds .
• The pronunciation of /j/ can sometimes be close to an alveolo-palatal sound , but not as fully articulated.
• /ŋ/ can also form a syllabic nasal .
• Sounds /tɕʰ, w/ mainly appear in modern Chinese loanwords.

Vowels

• /ɹ̩/ only is heard after dental/alveolar fricatives and affricates only, /i/ is never heard in this position.
• /ə/ and /ɯ/ are typically free variants of each other. When used as a single vowel, it is commonly heard as , but when followed by a back vowel /ɯ, u/ it is pronounced as .

References

1. Telue at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
2. Zhang Jimin 张済民. 1993. Gelao yu yan jiu 仡佬语研究 (A study of Gelao). Guiyang, China: Guizhou People's Press 贵州民族出版社.
3. Zhou Guoyan 周国炎. 2004. Gelao zu mu yu sheng tai yan jiu 仡佬族母語生态硏究 (Studies on the linguistic ecology of the Gelao people). Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House 民族出版社.
4. Li Jinfang . 2006. Studies on endangered languages in the Southwest China . Beijing: Minzu University .
5. Li, Jinfang 李锦芳 (2019). Guizhou Liuzhi Gelaoyu 贵州六枝仡佬语. Beijing: The Commercial Press. OCLC 1112270585.
6. Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna . 2011. The Gelao language: materials for a Kadai comparative dictionary . Moscow: Academia. ISBN 9785874443917
7. Edmondson, Jerold A. "Kra or Kadai languages" (PDF). Ling.uta.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
8. Zhuo, Guoyan (2000). The phonology system of Judu Gelao language. The Fifth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics: Hochiminh City: Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City University.

• Kra languages
• Languages of Vietnam
• Languages of Guizhou
• Languages of Guangxi
• Languages of Yunnan