Samei (autonym: ') is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani. It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township é¿æÂÂå½ÂæÂÂ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.
Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011).