@article{184411,
  author         = {David Bradley},
  journal        = {International Journal of the Sociology of Language},
  number         = {173},
  pages          = {159-176},
  publisher      = {Walter de Gruyter},
  title          = {Sanie and language loss in China},
  url            = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijsl.2005.2005.issue-173/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159.xml},
  volume         = {173},
  year           = {2005},
  abstract       = {Most of the many languages spoken by the large and widely distributed Yi nationality in China are endangered. One such is Sanie, spoken by about 8,000 people from a group of over 17,000 near Kunming in Yunnan. In surveying the area around Kuming, we located Sanie and a number of other undescribed and in most cases unreported endangered languages. Sanie is remarkable in that in some dialects it preserves velar plus | w | clusters which have been simplified in all other closely related languages. Such a cluster is found in the group name; this gives us a clearer understanding of the original autonym for the Yi languages as a whole. Therefore, the new name Ngwi for this group of languages is proposed, with etymological justifications. Sanie also has a large range of internal differences, suggesting that processes of change are speeded up during the process of language death. However it is shown to be a typical Eastern Yi language, like several of the other endangered languages spoken around Kunming including Samataw and Samei.},
  bestfn         = {eurasia\bradley_sanie2005.pdf},
  besttxt        = {ptxt2\eurasia\bradley_sanie2005_o.txt},
  cfn            = {eurasia\bradley_sanie2005.pdf},
  citekeys       = {cldf9:2d8f02e572ddd4d973ddb412067edb7a},
  delivered      = {eurasia\bradley_sanie2005.pdf},
  doi            = {10.1515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.159},
  fn             = {eurasia\bradley_sanie2005.pdf, eurasia\bradley_sanie2005_o.pdf},
  hhtype         = {overview;socling},
  inlg           = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby = {cldf9},
  issn           = {0165-2516},
  lgcode         = {Sanie [ysy], Samei [smh]},
  local_ids      = {99039},
  macro_area     = {Eurasia},
  src            = {cldf, degruyter, hh, zurich},
  zurichcode     = {Yi (Southeastern) [YIE]}
}