Kaduo

Facts

  • Language: Kaduo
  • Alternate names: Khàtù, Gazhuo, Kado, Kadu, 卡多話
  • Language code: ktp
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Ngwi-Burmese, Ngwi, Southern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~200,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Miao (Pollard) script, no longer in use.

More information:

    Officially classified within Hani nationality. Different from Kadu (See: [[Kadu]]) in Myanmar.

    Kaduo, spoken in Yunnan 雲南 Province (China), belongs to the Southern Ngwi branch in the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is different from Kadu (zkd), a language of Myanmar belonging to the Luish branch in Tibeto-Burman language family. It is also different from Katu (ktv), a Mon-Khmer language of Vietnam.