Samu language

Samu
	Samatao
Native to	China
Ethnicity	2,810 (2007)[1]
Native speakers	400 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Kazhuoish[2] Samu; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ysd
Glottolog	sama1295[3]

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.[4] Although there was an ethnic population of 2,465 in 1999, there are no fluent speakers under 50 years of age.[5]

References

Samu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Samatao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=56039
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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[e18-1] Samu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Samatao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[4] ttp://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=56039

[5] Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.