Samei
Классификация: Sino-Tibetan
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80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~18,667
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~28,000
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A group of about 28,000 Yi whose own name is (sa21 ni53), but are known in Chinese as Samei. About two thirds speakers.
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Extinct in some northwestern villages very close to Kunming city, severely endangered to the east in northeastern Guandu and Yiliang, and endangered in Ala Township which is the centre of the Samei distribution and where most villages are entirely or largely Samei. Few fully fluent young speakers, though many children have passive understanding of the language.
- ГЕОГРАФИЯ
- China
- ОПИСАНИЕ РЕГИОНА
Yunnan, Guandu District of Kunming City, forty-two villages just southeast of the city; also seven villages in northwestern Yiliang County to the east.