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Gelao is a dialect cluster of Kra languages in the Tai–Kadai language family. It is spoken by the Gelao people in southern
China and northern Vietnam. Despite an ethnic population of 580,000 (2000 census), however, only a few thousand still speak
the language. Estimates run from 3,000 in China by Li in 1999, of which 500 are monolinguals, to 7,900 by Edmonson in 2008.
Edmondson (2002) estimates the three Gelao varieties of Vietnam to have only about 350 speakers altogether. In 2009, a book
allegedly written in a native Gelao script has been found in Guizhou, China. It is not known whether this find is authentic. |
Names (more)[en] Gelao, Red |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : girLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/girhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:gir More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: girFreebase ISO 639-3 : gir GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |