| Gyámi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sichuan |
| Extinct | not attested since the 19th century[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | none |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
TheGyami (Tibetan:རྒྱ་མི,THL:Gyami, "Han Chinese") were a Han people ofSichuan at the foot of theTibetan Plateau who were reported byBrian Houghton Hodgson in 1874.
According to Hodgson, who thought the Gyami descended from a Chinese military outpost, the Chinese considered the Gyami to beQiangic speakers, suggesting that they did not recognize them as Han Chinese and that they did not useChinese characters.Victor H. Mair notes that what little is recorded of their speech indicates a degree of assimilation to local languages, but that it is clearly a variety of Mandarin.
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