Hlersu (Lesu 勒苏), or Sansu (Shansu 散苏), is a
Loloish language
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 ...
of
Yunnan Province
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in 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 Kunming. The province borders the C ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is spoken in
Xinping
Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County () is an autonomous county located in the central part of Yunnan Province, China. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Yuxi.
Administrative divisions
Xinping Yi and Dai A ...
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Jinping,
Zhenyuan,
Eshan (as Shansu 山苏), and (as Sansu)
Yuanjiang County
Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is a county of south-central Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. The county seat is the town of Lijiang (), while the county itself is under the administration of Yuxi City. It deri ...
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Hlersu (autonym: '; exonym: '; ' autonym reported in Yunnan (1955)
云南民族识别参考资料
(1955), p.44) is spoken in 13 townships (50 administrative villages and 143 hamlets) by 4,040 households and 15,737 persons in Xinping, Yuanjiang, and Eshan counties (Xu & Bai 2013:1).
References
*Xu Xianmin 鲜明 Bai Bibo 碧波(2013). ''A study of Shansu'' 苏彝语研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House 族出版社
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Loloish languages