Samei language
{{Short description|Loloish language spoken in China}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Samei
|nativename=
|states=China
|ethnicity=Yi
|speakers=20,000
|date=2007
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=Tibeto-Burman
|fam3=Lolo-Burmese
|fam4=Loloish
|fam5=Southeastern
|fam6=Sani–Azha
|script=
|iso3=smh
|glotto=same1240
|glottorefname=Samei
}}
Samei (autonym: {{IPA|sa21 ni53}}) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani.{{cite journal |last1=Bradley |first1=David |year=2005 |title=Sanie and language loss in China |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |volume=2005 |issue=173 |pages=159–176 |doi=10.1515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159}} It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, located in eastern Guandu District 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.{{cite book |last=Ye |first=Kangjie 叶康杰 |date=2020 |title=Samei Yiyu diaocha yanjiu 撒梅彝语调查研究 | location=Kunming |publisher=Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House 云南民族出版社 |isbn=978-7-5367-8338-6}}
Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011).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.
References
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{{Languages of China}}
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Lolo-Burmese languages}}
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