Samei language

Samei (autonym: sa21 ni53) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani.^[2] It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, located in eastern Guandu District^[3] just southeast of downtown Kunming, as well as in 7 villages in western Yiliang County (Ethnologue). There are about 20,000 speakers out of an estimated 28,000 ethnic population.

Samei
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	20,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Sani–Azha Samei
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smh
Glottolog	same1240
ELP	Samei

Documentation

Ye (2020) contains a detailed description and 3,000-word list of Samei.^[3]

Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011).^[4]