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Samu language

Samu language

Endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China

Not to be confused with Samatu language.

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]

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References

  1. [1]
    Samu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
  3. [3]
    "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.
  4. [4]
    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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