| Hlersu | |
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| Sansu | |
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hle |
| Glottolog | hler1235 |
| ELP | Hlersu |
 Hlersu is classified as Vulnerable by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Hlersu (Lesu 勒苏), orSansu (Shansu 山苏/散苏), is aLoloish language ofYunnan Province,China. It is spoken inXinping,Jinping,Zhenyuan,Eshan (as Shansu 山苏),[2] and (as Sansu)Yuanjiang County.
A deprecated ISO 639-3 codesca was assigned toSansu of Yuanjiang County andMyanmar, but was later merged with Hlersu (hle).
Hlersu (autonym:ɬɛɾ55sɨ55pʰa21; exonym:ɬɛɾ55sɨ55pʰo21;so33su33pʰa21) autonym reported in Yunnan (1955)[3]) is spoken by ethnic Hlersu people, who live in 13 townships (50 administrative villages and 143 hamlets). There are 4,040 households and 15,737 individuals in Xinping, Yuanjiang, and Eshan counties (Xu & Bai 2013:1). The ethnic population of each township is as follows.[4]
Speakers refer to their language asɬɛɾ55su55do21 (Xu & Bai 2013:62). The Hlersu dialect documented by Xu & Bai (2013) is that of Pujiehei 普杰黑, Daxi Village 大西村, Tadian Town 塔甸镇,Eshan County.[4]
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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