| 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 |
Samei (autonym:sa21ni53) is aLoloish language ofYunnan,China closely related toSani.[2] It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, located in easternGuandu District[3] just southeast of downtownKunming, as well as in 7 villages in westernYiliang County (Ethnologue). There are about 20,000 speakers out of an estimated 28,000 ethnic population.
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]
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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