Native to China Native speakers 400 (2007) Glottolog sama1295 | Ethnicity 2,810 (2007) ISO 639-3 ysd | |
Language family Sino-Tibetan
(Tibeto-Burman)
Lolo–Burmese
Loloish
Kazhuoish
Samu | ||
The Samu (autonym: sa˧mu˧; Chinese: 撒慕) language, Samatao (sa˧ma˨˩taw˨˩; 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. Although there was an ethnic population of 2,465 in 1999, there are no fluent speakers under 50 years of age.
References
Samu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA