| Samei | |
| States: | China |
| Ethnicity: | Yi |
| Speakers: | 20,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Lolo-Burmese |
| Fam4: | Loloish |
| Fam5: | Southeastern |
| Fam6: | Sani–Azha |
| Iso3: | smh |
| Glotto: | same1240 |
| Glottorefname: | Samei |
Samei (autonym: pronounced as /sa21 ni53/) is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani.[1] It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, located in eastern Guandu District 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.
Ye (2020) contains a detailed description and 3,000-word list of Samei.[2]
Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011).[3]