Samu language

Not to be confused with Samatu language.
Samu
Samatao
Native to China
Ethnicity 2,810 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
400 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ysd
Glottolog sama1295[3]

The Samu (autonym: sa˧mu˧; Chinese: 撒慕) language, Samatao (sa˧ma˨˩taw˨˩; Chinese 撒马多 Samaduo), also known as Eastern Samadu, is a Loloish language spoken by older adults in Zijun Village 子君村 (also called Da'er), Yiliu Township 矣六乡, Guandu District 官渡区, Kunming, China.[4] Although there was an ethnic population of 2,465 in 1999, there are no fluent speakers under 50 years of age.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Samu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Samatao". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=56039
  5. Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.
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