Sadu (autonym: ' (Bai 2012:9)) 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 ...
of
Yuxi
Yuxi () is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. The administrative center of Yuxi is Hongta District. Yuxi is approximately south of Kunming.
Geography
Yuxi is located in the center ...
, central
Yunnan
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, China.
Classification
Bai (2012) classifies Sadu as a Hani (
Hanoish Southern Loloish) language, although the speakers are officially classified by the Chinese government as ethnic
Bai.
[http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/ICSTLL45/Documents/Abstracts%20Book%20ICSTLL45-Oct16.pdf ] Fang (2013) notes that Sadu shares many similarities with
Samu (Zijun), and classifies Sadu as a Southeastern Yi language.
Distribution
Sadu speakers live in 3 villages in
Hongta District
Hongta District () is the main district of Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China.
Administrative divisions
The county government of Yuxi City is seated in Hongta District.
Hongta District has 9 subdistricts and 2 ethnic townships.
;9 subdistricts
;2 et ...
,
Yuxi
Yuxi () is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. The administrative center of Yuxi is Hongta District. Yuxi is approximately south of Kunming.
Geography
Yuxi is located in the center ...
Prefecture, Yunnan (Bai 2012:3).
*Xincun 新村, Boyi Village 波衣村, Chunhe Township 春和镇
(autonym: Suonapo 所那泼)
*Dashuitang 大水塘, Boyi Village 波衣村, Chunhe Township 春和镇
(autonym: Tatapo 塔塔泼)
*Jiaoyuan 椒园, Dashiban Village 大石板村, Beicheng Township 北城镇
(autonym: Lilepo 哩期泼)
There are also Sadu people who have lost use of the Sadu language is the following locations (Bai 2012:5, 29).
*Shuanghe Yi Ethnic Township 双河彝族乡,
Jinning County
Jinning District () is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The formation of the district was approved on November 24, 2016, after the dissolution of the former ''Jinnin ...
, in Hetao 核桃园
and Tianba 田坝村
villages
*Bailiuzhuang 柏柳庄 village, Baofeng Town 宝峰镇
References
*
*Bai Bibo
碧波 2012. ''A study of Sadu''
都语研究 Beijing: Minzu University Press.
*Fang Lifen
利芬 2013. ''A genetic study on the Sadu language of Bai people in Yuxi''
溪白族撒都话系属研究 M.A. dissertation. Beijing: Minzu University.
External links
Sadu DoReCo corpuscompiled by Xianming Xu and Bibo Bai. Audio recordings of narrative texts, with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level and translations.
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Loloish languages
Languages of China