Telue language

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

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)

Duoluo has many uvular and prenasalized consonants.

• 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.

• /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].

White Gelao of Yueliangwan, Yunnan has 4 tones.

 White Gelao of Niupo, Guizhou has 4 tones.