Samei language
Loloish language spoken in China
| Samei | |
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| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| 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.
Documentation
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]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Ye, Kangjie 叶康杰 (2020). Samei Yiyu diaocha yanjiu 撒梅彝语调查研究. Kunming: Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House 云南民族出版社. ISBN 978-7-5367-8338-6.
- ^ Satterthwaite-Phillips, Damian. 2011. Phylogenetic inference of the Tibeto-Burman languages or On the usefulness of lexicostatistics (and "Megalo"-comparison) for the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.
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- Northern (Beijing) Sign
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- Hong Kong SignHK/MC
- Tibetan SignXZ
- GX = Guangxi
- HK = Hong Kong
- MC = Macau
- NM = Inner Mongolia
- XJ = Xinjiang
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