Hagei (Hakei) or Green Gelao (; sometimes translated as Blue Gelao) is a Gelao language spoken in China and

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Dialects

The primary dialectal areas where Hagei (Green Gelao) is still spoken are: *

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Guanling County Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County (; Bouyei: ) is an autonomous county in Anshun City, in the southwest of Guizhou Province, China. Area: Population: 334,900 in 2008. Postal Code: 561300. Telephone Area Code: 0853 The county govern ...

, Qinglong County, and

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* Guangxi: in Sanchong 三冲

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Longlin County Longlin Various Nationalities (Gezu) Autonomous County () is an autonomous county, under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baise, in the west of Guangxi, China, bordering Guizhou Province to the north. As of 2019, the county's pop ...

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Zunyi Zunyi () is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to the northwest. Along with Guiyang an ...

, are extinct.Zhou Guoyan 周国炎. 2004. ''Gelaozu muyu shengtai yanjiu 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.

References

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