Gyami

Gyámi
Region	Sichuan
Extinct	not attested since the 19th century[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Sunuwar Gyámi
Language codes
ISO 639-2	none
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

The Gyami snw: ग्यामी (Gyámi, Tibetan for "Chinese") were a Han Chinese people of Sichuan, at the foot of the Tibetan Plateau, who were reported by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1874.

According to Hodgson, who thought the Gyami descended from a Chinese military outpost, the Chinese considered the Gyami to be Hsifan, suggesting that they did not recognize them as Chinese and that they did not use Chinese script. Victor 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.

References

1. Mair

• Victor Mair (1990) "Two Non-Tetragraphic Northern Sinitic Languages" (b. Who Were the Gyámi?), Sino-Platonic Papers 18