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  Gelao (Gelo) Minority - Chinese Nationalities
The Gelao ethnic group is distributed among some 20 cities and counties such as Zunyi, Anshun, Liupanshui, Qianjin and Zhijin in northern and western Guizhou Province.
The Gelao are mountain subsistence farmers and hunters.
The Gelao language, consisting of four dialects, belongs to the Zhuang-Dong group of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Minorities/min-Gelao.html   (344 words)

  
 China Minority Groups: Gelao People
According to the census of 2000, the population of Gelao is 579,357.
Gelao have their own language which is a member of the Zhuang-Dong Group of the Sino-Tibetan phylum, but the four dialects are quite different from each other.
Gelao ethnic minority celebrate traditional festivals which are almost the same as those of Han people, such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival, and so on.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/nationality/gelao/index.htm   (529 words)

  
 Gelao Ethnic Minority - China Style
The Gelao ethnic group has a population of about 438,200, which is distributed among some 20 cities and counties such as Zunyi, Anshun, Liupanshui, Qianjin and Zhijin in northern and western Guizhou Province.
The Gelao people have rice as their staple food which is complemented with maize, barley, potato, taro, millet and sorghum.
The Gelao people also celebrate their own New Year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar when everything begins to grow.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01780/chinese-ethnic-group/gelao.htm   (796 words)

  
 Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They number approximately 438,200 and are mainly located in the western part of the Guizhou Province.
The Gelao language, belongs to the Zhuang-Dong group of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Since the various Geloa dialects differ greatly from each other, Mandarin has been used as a lingua franca and is now the main language spoken by Gelaos.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/g/ge/gelao.html   (125 words)

  
 China Source
The Gelao language is an impure one because of contact with other languages and only a quarter of the people speak it.
Since some Gelaos cannot understand one another, the Han language has become their common language with some learning the languages of the Miao, Yi and Bouyei as well.
Later in life, when the time came to celebrate the actual marriage, "žthe bride would walk with her relatives, carrying an umbrella, to the groom's home where they would live apart from the parents." As a people, the Gelao are faithful, honest, wholehearted in hospitality, respectful of elders and welcoming of visitors.
www.chsource.org /Gelao.htm   (571 words)

  
 People and Places
The Gelao language is an impure one because of its contact with other languages.
Gelao houses are built on hillsides or at the foot of mountains.
The rooms are all in a row, beginning with a kitchen on one end, a central room for worshipping ancestors and storing sundries, and one or two bedrooms on the opposite end.
easia.imb.org /peopleplaces/upg/gelao.htm   (192 words)

  
 Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gelao language, belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family.
Since the various Gelao dialects differ greatly from each other, Mandarin has been used as a Lingua franca and is now the main language spoken by Gelaos.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ge/Gelao.htm   (124 words)

  
 Introducing the Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gelao is one of the most problematic minorities to be studied in China.
It is believed that the Gelao language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family, Zhuang-Dong branch, Geyang sub branch, but not all the linguist that studied their languages agree.
The disparities between Gelao "dialects", the different ways of name themselves, the sudden increase in the Gelao population from1982 to 1990, lead us to think that "Gelao" is an umbrella under what further research will find different ethnic groups.
www.chinaviva.com /eng/Gelao/gelaointr.htm   (310 words)

  
 china radio international   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Etnia Gelao locuieşte în principal în nord-vestul, sud-vestul şi nordul provinciei Guizhou din sud-vestul Chinei.
Copiii de etnie Gelao pot să urmeze cursuri şcolare, iar unii dintre aceştia au fost admişi şi la facultăţi.
Membrii etniei Gelao se ocupă din generaţie în generaţie de agricultură, mai ales de cultivarea orezului, tot ce produc fiind destinat autoconsumului.
ro.chinabroadcast.cn /1/2005/10/24/1@33474.htm   (602 words)

  
 Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gelao jazyk, patří k Zhuang-Dong skupina Sino-tibetská jazyková rodina.
Dnes, jediný čtvrt Gelaos ještě mluvit tímto jazykem.
Protože různé Geloa dialekty se liší velmi od sebe navzájem, Mandarín byl použitý jak franca lingua a je nyní hlavní jazyk mluvený Gelaos.
wikipedia.infostar.cz /g/ge/gelao.html   (89 words)

  
 The Gelao minority
Gelao Daoism is divided into the Maoshan Sect and the Meishan Sect.
The religious practice of the Maoshan Daoist priests is very close to that of Daoist priests of Han areas.
The difference between the two sects is similar to the difference between the Daoist priests and the Master priests found in Yao communities.
www.eng.taoism.org.hk /general-daoism/development-of-daoism/pg1-2-8-1-2-5.asp   (125 words)

  
 Gelao dialects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gelaos are distributed in about twenty counties of four provinces: Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Sichuan.
According to the grammar, phonetics and vocabulary, as well as the way the Gelao people call themselves, their distribution, life and customs, we can divide the Gelao language in four dialects.
It is almost impossible for their speakers to understand the Gelaos that speak the previous sub dialects.
www.chinaviva.com /eng/Gelao/gelaodial.htm   (357 words)

  
 China_Channel_Ethnic_Food
Gelaos live on paddy rice and maize, and also eat flour food, other grains and yams.
Gelaos attach importance to foods for feasts, and usually require two tables or three tables for a feast.
Gelaos are good at brewing wines, of which Papo Wine is the most special one.
www.qqso.cn /chinachannel/e-food/gelao.asp   (383 words)

  
 Chinese Nationality List
Gelao women used to wear short jackets reaching only their waists and close-fitting skirts.
In some places the Gelao people had a custom of "beating teeth", which was similar to the Liao's practice of drilling holes in their teeth.
Now the Gelaos live almost the same as the Hans in their localities.
www.chinaphile.com /chinese_nationality_list.htm   (3845 words)

  
 china radio international
Los Gelao usan alpargatas hechas de todo tipo de materiales, como tiras de bambú y fibras de lino; sin embargo, los jóvenes suelen calzar unas hechas de hilo de algodón y de felpa.
Los Gelao también usan de manera habitual sombreros hechos de paja de trigo.
Como los Dong, para los Gelao, las verduras y carnes encurtidas son elementos indispensables de su gastronomía.
espanol.cri.cn /161/2006/03/22/1@84778.htm   (466 words)

  
 The Gelao people are an ethnic group ethnic group They form...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gelao people are an ethnic group ethnic group They form...
The "Gelao" people are an ethnic group ethnic group.
The Gelao language Gelao language, belongs to the Zhuang-Dong Zhuang-Dong group of the Sino-Tibetan language family Sino-Tibetan language family.
www.biodatabase.de /Gelao   (200 words)

  
 Gelao - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Los antepasados de los gelao son el pueblo "Liao" que habitó en la zona de la actual provincia de Guizhou hace ya más de 2.000 años.
En el siglo V los gelao escogían a sus reyes; cargo que posteriormente se hizo hereditario.
Los gelao adoran a los espíritus de sus antepasados así como a diferentes dioses.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gelao   (536 words)

  
 IRSINA.NET - La comunita' virtuale irsinese
Clara Gelao, director of the Pinacoteca Provinciale in Bari, claims that a painted stone statue of Saint Eufemia in Irsina cathedral can be attributed to the artist.
Dr Gelao then discovered in Paduan archives that De Mabilia was the parish priest of the San Daniele church in Padova in the 15th century.
Dr Gelao’s account of her research is to be published this autumn, Andrea Mantegna and De Mabilia’s donation to Montepeloso cathedral (La Bautta Editions).
www.irsina.net /rubriche/notizie/49.asp   (837 words)

  
 China Folklore Photographic Association ::China Folklore :: Gelao Nationality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The senior generation is respected in Gelao ethnic minority nationality.
A banquet of cooked dog is held when he is sixth years old by his children and good relation and friend, which is to present their love feeling to the senior.
The festival of Gelaos' is most the same as the Hans'.
www.china-fpa.org /english/china/nationality/gelao.htm   (474 words)

  
 Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The traditional festivals of the Gelaos are similar to those of the Hans, such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival July Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, etc.
Baba cake is the necessary food in the Gelaos' festivals.
It is the special festival of the Gelao people, and falls on October 1 of the lunar calendar.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_chinaway/2003-09/24/content_28189.htm   (323 words)

  
 Sugar Fix
This was too much for the remaining three members, who parted ways for a while to soulsearch and travel the world.
When they met up again a year or so further on, the musical instruments were replaced by beers; Andrew, Marty and Gelao content to just "hang" and party for a while.
Soon though, a few songs were written and the Fugu Shtix EP was recorded and released only at live gigs.
www.users.bigpond.com /agelao/sugarfix/bio.html   (175 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:KKF
Interim SIL code: GLX > Gelao, Green [giq]
Interim SIL code: GLZ > Gelao, Red [gir]
The three dialect groups of Viet Nam are distinguished by the color of their dress.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=KKF   (306 words)

  
 GPD for the PDA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ancestors of the Gelao people are believed to have been part of the ancient Liao race that established the Yelang Kingdom in Guizhou, China over 2,000 years ago.
A popular folktale explained that the King of Yelang was born from bamboo; hence the whole group came to be known as Gelao.
The religion of the Gelao people is a mixture of ancestor worship, animism and polytheism.
www.global-prayer-digest.org /pda/daily/2006-7-23.html   (343 words)

  
 Gelao - Wikipédia
Les Gelao (également écrit Gelo) (chinois : Gelaozú) sont un groupe ethnique.
Aujourd'hui, seulement un quart des Gelaos parlent encore cette langue.
Puisque les divers dialectes des Gelao diffèrent considérablement les uns des autres, le mandarin a été utilisé comme lingua-franca et est maintenant la langue principale parlée par les Gelaos.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gelao   (238 words)

  
 Pengshui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South: Yanhe Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (沿河土家族苗族自治縣), Guizhou; Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County (務川仡佬族苗族自治縣)
Southwest: Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County (道真仡佬族苗族自治縣), Guizhou
59.5% of Pengshui residents are members of the following 11 ethnic minorities: Miao, Tujia, Mongols, Hui, Gelao, Dong, Tibetans, Manchus, Zhuang, Yi, and Hani.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pengshui   (347 words)

  
 La Chi Language
Their language is a completely different language group from Vietnamese, which is of the Mon-Khmer group.
It is closely related to the Gelao (Co Lao) language, linguistically, though the two are not mutually intelligible.
A lexical study of the La Chi language found that it has 36% similarity with Gelao, 33% similarity with Pu Peo (Pubiao) and 28% similarity with Zhuang.
www.vnpeoples.org /Lachi/daily_lives.htm   (136 words)

  
 Gelao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gelaos are spread in a vast area.
It is difficult to find common characters to the different groups of Gelao.
Many dialects with important differences make impossible comunication between the speakers of different Gelao dialects.
www.chinaviva.com /eng/Gelao/Gelaoindex.htm   (58 words)

  
 Books by Clara Gelao, compare prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You may browse this category by title or by publication date.
by Gian Marco Jacobitti, Clara Gelao, Consorzio IDRIA, Castello svevo (Bari, Italy)
by Clara Gelao, Centro di coordinamento attivita culturali Monterosso
www.allbookstores.com /author/Clara_Gelao.html   (201 words)

  
 Gelao - China-related Topics GE-GH - China-Related Topics
Gelao - China-related Topics GE-GH - China-Related Topics
They form one of the List of Chinese ethnic groups56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
Since the various Geloa dialects differ greatly from each other, Mandarin (linguistics)Mandarin has been used as a lingua franca and is now the main language spoken by Gelaos.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Gelao   (212 words)

  
 Handmade Wooden Doll, 'Gelao Ethnic Doll'
The endearing handmade wooden doll is a smiling Gelao ethnic girl.
A fl cloth headdress decorated with yellow tassels, purple blouse embroidered with colorful patterns.
People who saw the doll all loved it, and Zheng liked it very much as well.
galleriapangea.com /handmade_wooden_doll_gelao_ethnic_doll/product_details.html   (183 words)

  
 HRELP - Projects
Documentation of Two Gelao Varieties: Zou Lei and A Hou, South West China
One of the most endangered languages in China, Gelao is now used by only 15-20 elderly people in Zhenning and Dafang counties of Guizhou Province.
The project will devote special attention to documenting the cultural and ethnographical aspects of the languages in question.
www.hrelp.org /grants/projects/index.php?projid=85   (138 words)

  
 iaselli g - ResearchIndex document query   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
M. de Palma, A. Farilla, G. Gelao, M. Girone, G. Iaselli, G.
D. Creanza, M. de Palma, G. Gelao, M. Girone, G. Iaselli, G.
Creanza, M. de Palma, G. Gelao, M. Girone, G. Iaselli, G.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cs?q=Iaselli,G   (882 words)

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