Samei language
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Loloish language spoken in China
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: sa21 ni53) is a
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)
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- ^ 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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Chinese
- Chinese Sign
- Northern (Beijing) Sign
- Southern (Shanghai) Sign
- Hong Kong SignHK/MC
- Tibetan SignXZ
- GX = Guangxi
- HK = Hong Kong
- MC = Macau
- NM = Inner Mongolia
- XJ = Xinjiang
- XZ = Tibet
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