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 | |
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Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | smh |
Glottolog | same1240 |
ELP | Samei |
Ye (2020) contains a detailed description and 3,000-word list of Samei.[3]
Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011).[4]