Samu language
Endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China
| Samu | |
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| Samatao | |
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | 2,810 (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 400 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ysd |
| Glottolog | sama1295 |
| ELP | Samatao |
The Samu (autonym: sa33 mu33; Chinese: 撒慕) language, or Samatao (sa33 ma21 taw21; 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.[3] Although there was an ethnic population of 2,465 in 1999, there are no fluent speakers under 50 years of age.[4]
References
- ^ a b Samu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
- ^ "官渡区矣六街道办事处子君村民委员会子君村". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
- ^ 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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Languages of China
- Standard Chinese
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| Counties/Banners | numerous |
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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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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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