Hagei language
Kra language spoken in China and Vietnam
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Dialects
The primary dialectal areas where Hagei (Green Gelao) is still spoken are:[2]
- Guizhou: in Guanling County, Qinglong County, and Zhenfeng County[4]
- Guangxi: in Sanchong 三冲 village, Longlin County[5]
- Vietnam: in Hà Giang Province[6]
The Hagei varieties of northern Guizhou, such as in Zunyi, are extinct.[7]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | Labializationlab. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʲ | pʷ | t | tʲ | tʷ | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
| aspirated | pʰ | pʲʰ | pʰʷ | tʰ | tʰʷ | kʰ | kʷʰ | |||||||
| voiced | b | d | dʲ | ɡ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tsʷ | tʂ | tʂʷ | tɕ | ||||||||
| aspirated | tsʰ | tsʰʷ | tʂʰʷ | tɕʰ | ||||||||||
| voiced | dz | dʐ | dʑ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | ʂʷ | ɕ | h | hʷ | ||||||
| voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʐʷ | ʑ | |||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̊ | ŋ̊ | |||||||||
| voiced | m | mʲ | mʷ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
| glottalized | mˀ | ŋˀ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral | voiceless | l̥ | ||||||||||||
| Voicevoiced | l | lʲ | ||||||||||||
| glottalized | lˀ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
- Consonant clusters may include /pl, bl/ and /ps, pz/.
Vowels
- /z̞/ is typically centralized and may also be heard as a syllabic retroflex [ʐ̩] or a central [ɨ].[5]
