• Critically endangered

  80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 1,000-9,999

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  2,000

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  At least 2,000 people, members of this group within the Yi nationality in widely scattered villages, notably Aimalong village in northwestern Shilin County. Language unstudied, extinct in most places, moribund at best in Aimalong.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Extinct in most places, moribund at best in Aimalong.

PLACES

China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Yunnan, Shilin, Yiliang and surrounding counties