Samu language should not be confused with Samatu language.
| Samu | |
| Nativename: | Samatao |
| States: | China |
| Ethnicity: | 2,810 (2007) |
| Speakers: | 400 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Lolo–Burmese |
| Fam4: | Loloish |
| Fam5: | Kazhuoish[1] |
| Iso3: | ysd |
| Glotto: | sama1295 |
| Glottorefname: | Samatao |
The Samu (autonym: pronounced as /sa33 mu33/;) language, or Samatao (pronounced as /sa33 ma21 taw21/; 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.[2] Although there was an ethnic population of 2,465 in 1999, there are no fluent speakers under 50 years of age.[3]