Samei language

Samei
Samei
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	20,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Samei; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smh
Glottolog	same1240
ELP	Samei

Samei (autonym: sa21 ni53) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani.^[2] It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, located in eastern Guandu District^[3] just southeast of downtown Kunming, as well as in 7 villages in western Yiliang County (Ethnologue). There are about 20,000 speakers out of an estimated 28,000 ethnic population.

^ Samei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.
^ Cite error: The named reference Ye2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[e18-1] Samei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] 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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