• Critically endangered

  80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <7,500

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  7,500

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Classified in the Yi Nationality. Group population 7,500. Language is unstudied and moribund.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Chinese

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

This group is said to be descendants of a Chinese army sent to the area many centuries ago, who married local Yi women.

PLACES

Yunnan, China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Zhenkang County

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Not to be confused with the distinct group Samataw in the Kunming area