Gelao (autonym: Kláo Chinese: 仡佬 Gēlǎo Vietnamese: Cờ Lao) 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 580000 (2000 census) however only a few thousand still speak the language. Estimates run from 3000 in China by Li in 1999 of which 500 are monolinguals to 7900 by Edmondson in 2008.
ISO 639-3 code
gio
family
Kra languages
spoken in
China, Longlin Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hà Giang Province, Guangxi, Vietnam, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
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