Samei language
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Samei | |
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Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers
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20,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | smh |
Glottolog | same1240 [2] |
Samei is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani (Bradley 2005). It is spoken in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, just southeast of downtown Kunming.
References[edit]
- ^ Samei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Samei". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Bradley, David (2005). "Sanie and language loss in China". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2005 (173): 159–176. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159.
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