Samei language
Loloish language spoken in China
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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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
