Sadu (autonym: ' (Bai 2012:9)) is a
Loloish language
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of 50–100 Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China. They are most closely related to Bur ...
of
Yuxi
Yuxi ( zh, c=玉溪, p=Yùxī) 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 i ...
, central
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
, 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.
Abstract Book
cohass.ntu.edu.sg October 2016 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. It borders Jiangchuan District to the east, Jinning District to the north, Eshan County to the southwest and Tonghai County to the southeast.
Administrative divisions
T ...
, Yuxi
Yuxi ( zh, c=玉溪, p=Yùxī) 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 i ...
Prefecture, Yunnan (Bai 2012:3).
*Xincun 新村, Boyi Village 波衣村, Chunhe Township 春和镇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 ''Jinni ...
, in Hetao 核桃园
References
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*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 corpus
compiled 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 Yunnan