Hlersu language

Hlersu
Sansu
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	15,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Lisoish Lipo–Lolopo Hlersu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hle
Glottolog	hler1235[2]

Hlersu (Lesu 勒苏), or Sansu (Shansu 散苏), is a Loloish language of Yunnan Province, China. It is spoken in Xinping, Jinping, Zhenyuan, Eshan (as Shansu 山苏),^[3] and (as Sansu) Yuanjiang County.

Hlersu (autonym: ɬɛɾ55 sɿ55 pha21; exonym: ɬɛɾ55 sɿ55 pho21) is spoken in 13 townships (50 administrative villages and 143 hamlets) by 4,040 households and 15,737 persons in Xinping, Yuanjiang, and Eshan counties (Xu & Bai 2013:1).

References

1. Hlersu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hlersu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Eshan County Almanac [峨山彝族自治县回族志] (1996). Kunming: Yunnan People's Press [云南民族出版社].

• Xu Xianmin [许鲜明], Bai Bibo [白碧波] (2013). A study of Shansu [山苏彝语研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. ISBN 9787105131006