| Dao | |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Yajiang County, Sichuan |
| Speakers: | 2,685 |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Mixed |
| Family: | mixed Mandarin–Tibetan |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | daoh1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Daohua |
The Dao language or Daohua is a Chinese–Tibetan mixed language or creolized language of Yajiang County, Sichuan, China. Word order is SOV as in Tibetan (Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs 2004:6), while the lexicon consists of words derived from both Chinese and Tibetan.
Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs (2004:6) reports that Dao is spoken in the following townships of Yajiang County, Sichuan, China. Within these administrative townships, Dao is spoken in 8 villages, comprising a total of 504 households and 2,685 individuals as of 1995.
Choyo, a Qiangic language, is spoken just to the north of Dao, and is also spoken in Xiala township 呷拉乡.