Kaduo
PrintA language of China
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Khatu
Population
180,000 in China (Bradley 2007), increasing. Many monolinguals. Population total all countries: 185,000.
Location
Yunnan Province, primarily southeast Simao prefecture, Pu’er, Mojiang, and Jiangcheng counties. Also in Laos.
Language Maps
Language Status
6a (Vigorous).
Classification
Typology
SOV; CV(V); a voiced-voiceless distinction only for fricatives; no tense or nasalized vowels; nouns mostly polysyllabic, other words mostly monosyllabic; many loanwords from Chinese; tonal, 8 tones
Language Use
Home, village. All ages. Most also use Chinese.
Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: Some in Chinese.
Language Resources
Writing
Miao (Pollard) script, no longer in use.
Officially classified within Hani nationality. Different from Kadu [zkd] in Myanmar.