Lami (autonym: ' in

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, meaning 'low status';Bradley, David. 2001. ''Northern Hani dialects''. Paper presented at ICSTLL 34, Kunming, China, 24–28 October 2001. ) is a Southern

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, China. Lami is spoken in

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, and

. Lami is also spoken in Hade 哈德, Sanmeng Township 三猛乡,

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. The Lami language has been documented by Zhang (1998) and Wang (2011).

Distribution

In Mojiang County, Lami is spoken by a total of 3,105 people in the following townships (Yang & Zhang 2010:9). *Naha Township 那哈乡 (1,844 persons) *Longtan Township 龙潭乡 (446 persons) *Yutang Township 渔塘乡 (415 persons) *Baliu Township 坝溜乡 (312 persons) *Tongguan Town 联珠镇 (88 persons) Lefèvre-Pontalis (1892)Lefèvre-Pontalis, Pierre. 1892. Notes sur quelques populations du nord de l'Indo-Chine otes on some populations of northern Indo-China ''Journal Asiatique'' 19, 8, 8. 237-269, 129-154, 291-303. reports the presence of Lami in Xieng-Hung (

Jinghong Jinghong (; khb, ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩩ᩵ᨦ; th, เชียงรุ่ง, , ; lo, ຊຽງຮຸ່ງ; also formerly romanised as ''Chiang Hung'', ''Chengrung'', ''Cheng Hung'', Jeng Hung, ''Jinghung'', ''Keng Hung'', ''Kiang Hung'' and ' ...

), and provides a word list for Lami as well.

References

*Wang Li 王力. 2011. 国际哈尼/阿卡区域文化调查: 中国绿春县哈德哈尼族腊米人文化实录. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press 云南人民出版社. *Yang Hong ��洪 Zhang Hong ��红 2010. ''Demographics and current situations of Hani subgroups in Mojiang County'' ��江哈尼族自治县哈尼支系与人口现状调查研究 Journal of Honghe University ��河学院学报 Vol. 8, No. 3. Jun. 2010. DOI:10.13963/j.cnki.hhuxb.2010.03.028 *You Weiqiong ��伟琼 2013. ''Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan'' ��南民族识别研究 Beijing: Nationalities Press ��族出版社 *Zhang Peizhi ��佩芝 1998. ''Comparative vocabulary lists of the Ha-Ya dialects of the Hani language'' ��尼语哈雅方言土语词汇对照 Kunming: Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House ��南民族出版社 Southern Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan {{st-lang-stub