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The the Gelao main distribution of the remote mountain village in southwest China, their parade Gelo language belonging to the Kam-Tai language family beefy central language branch. Academia Gelo language into four major dialects, that is issued dialect the BREA dialect, the Doral dialect, Kazakhstan give dialects. Gelo language at home and abroad since the 1980s, has made a lot of achievements, but the depth and breadth of the research is not enough. Due to historical and practical reasons, Gelo language is endangered status, an urgent need to strengthen the research. This article is a preliminary description of Gelo language is a language point Dialect preliminary comparative analysis. The description of the object of this article is Zhenning County, Guizhou Province, Ding Flag Town Bigon village Gelo language, the language has been in the critically endangered status, it is estimated that after a generation or two people about to disappear. Currently, no detailed survey data released Gelo language on this point academia. The main use of descriptive linguistics to describe than the voice of the tribute Gelo language, vocabulary, grammar system, and by comparison with other Gelo language point, the argument Bigon Gelo language belonging BREA dialect. According to first-hand language materials, summed up than the voice of the tribute Gelo language, vocabulary, grammar system and its features. A voice system: 33 Total Bigon Gelo language initials, 37 finals, four tones. Its initials tends to simplify, a small amount of residual complex consonants and voiced initials after tongue laterals l and the tremolo r in other the Gelao language dialect not found, also retained two small retroflex q qh, but less sample words, the graze tone initials f mainly used to spell Chinese loanwords. (?) Finals higher frequencies, in, i (?) Ian, ia (?), Iau, ua, uan, ua (?) Finals and more used to spell Chinese loanwords. Tone tone sandhi phenomenon, its law has yet to be revealed. , The vocabulary system: word syllable constitutes monosyllables mostly from the meaning of the composition can be divided into simple reduplicated form phonemes, derived composite of several, simple word is the most common. The homonym more. Obvious from the Chinese than the tribute Gelo language by word, most modern Southwest Mandarin Loanwords few ancient Chinese Loan Words do not form a significant Han pretext of voice system. Grammar describing the nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, auxiliary parts of speech syntax introduced judgment, denial, doubt, and comparison of several Sentence. Word order and function words is an important means to express grammatical meaning Bigon Gelo language, the word order of sentence elements \Finally, on the basis of pronunciation, vocabulary compared with other Gelo language draw conclusions should be vested BREA dialect Bigon Gelo Language. Currently, academia Description BREA dialect is still very full, corpus published herein rich Gelo language corpus from a different angle. In addition, from the point of view of the rescue of endangered languages, the writing of this article has its special academic and social values.
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