Telue language

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 are frequently close to interdental affricate sounds.
 * The pronunciation of can sometimes be close to an alveolo-palatal sound, but not as fully articulated.
 * can also form a syllabic nasal.
 * Sounds mainly appear in modern Chinese loanwords.

Vowels

 * only is heard after dental/alveolar fricatives and affricates only, is never heard in this position.
 * and 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  it is pronounced as.