Popei 泼佩 is a
Loloish
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its relat ...
language spoken in
Huaping County
Huaping County () is a county of Lijiang City, in the north of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the east. Located at the northwestern of Yunnan, it covers an area of and had a population of 159,695 in 2020 statistics. Huaping ...
,
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
, China. In Huaping County, it is spoken by about 1,000 people in several villages. Popei is also spoken in
Dayao and
Yongren Counties, as well as small pockets in nearby regions.
References
Loloish languages
Languages of China
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