Social:Telue language
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Short description: Kra language
| Telue | |
|---|---|
| White Gelao | |
| Duoluo | |
| Native to | China , Vietnam |
| Region | Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Ha Giang Province |
Native speakers | (1,220 cited 1987)Template:Ethnologue24 does not exist |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | giw |
| Glottolog | whit1267[1] |
Telue (pinyin transcription: Duoluo 多罗; Tolo) or White Gelao is a Gelao language spoken in China and Vietnam.[2][3]
Dialects
The primary dialectal areas where Telue (White Gelao) is still spoken are:[4]
- 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)[5]
Phonology
Duoluo has many uvular and prenasalized consonants.[6]
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
(Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | lat. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | ||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʲ | pl | t | tʲ | k | kʲ | kʷ | q | ʔ | ʔʲ | |
| aspirated | pʰ | pʰʲ | pʰl | tʰ | tʲʰ | kʰ | kʲʰ | kʰʷ | qʰ | ||||
| voiced | b | bʲ | bl | d | dʲ | ɡ | |||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tɕ | ||||||||||
| aspirated | tsʰ | (tɕʰ) | |||||||||||
| voiced | dz | dʑ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ɕ | h | ||||||||
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | ||||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̟̊ | ŋ̊ | ||||||||
| voiced | m | mʲ | ml | n | ɲ̟ | ŋ | |||||||
| Lateral | fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||
| glide | l | lʲ | ˀl | ||||||||||
| labial | lʷ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | (w) | j | |||||||||||
- The sound of the affricates /ts, tsʰ, dz/ are frequently close to interdental affricate sounds [tθ, tθʰ, dð].
- The pronunciation of /j/ can sometimes be close to an alveolo-palatal sound [ʑ], but not as fully articulated.
- /ŋ/ can also form a syllabic nasal [ŋ̍].
- Sounds /tɕʰ, w/ mainly appear in modern Chinese loanwords.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | y | ɯ | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | |||
| Syllabic | ɹ̩ | ||||
- /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 [ɯ], but when followed by a back vowel /ɯ, u/ it is pronounced as [ə].[7]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Duoluo Gelao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/whit1267.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Li Jinfang [李锦芳]. 2006. Studies on endangered languages in the Southwest China [西南地区濒危语言调查研究]. Beijing: Minzu University [中央民族大学出版社].
- ↑ Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna [Самарина, Ирина Владимировна]. 2011. The Gelao language: materials for a Kadai comparative dictionary [Языки гэлао: материалы к сопоставительному словарю кадайских языко]. Moscow: Academia. ISBN:9785874443917
- ↑ Edmondson, Jerold A.. "Kra or Kadai languages". Ling.uta.edu. http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/krac.pdf.
- ↑ 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.
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