The Samu (autonym: '; ) language, or Samatao ('; Chinese 撒马多 ''Samaduo''), also known as Eastern Samadu, 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 rel ...
spoken by older adults in Zijun Village 子君村 (also called Da'er), Yiliu Township 矣六乡,
Guandu District
Guandu District () is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China
Southwest China () is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China.
Geography
Southwest China ...
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.
[Bradley, David. 2005. "Sanie and language loss in China".''International Journal of the Sociology of Language''. Volume 2005, Issue 173, Pp. 159–176.]
References
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Loloish languages