Hlersu (Lesu Ã¥ÂÂèÂÂ), or Sansu (Shansu å±±èÂÂ/æ£èÂÂ), is a Loloish language of Yunnan Province, China. It is spoken in Xinping, Jinping, Zhenyuan, Eshan (as Shansu å±±èÂÂ), and (as Sansu) Yuanjiang County.
A deprecated ISO 639-3 code sca was assigned to Sansu of Yuanjiang County and Myanmar, but was later merged with Hlersu (hle).
Background
Hlersu (autonym: '; exonym: '; ') autonym reported in Yunnan (1955)) is spoken by ethnic Hlersu people, who live in 13 townships (50 administrative villages and 143 hamlets). There are 4,040 households and 15,737 individuals in Xinping, Yuanjiang, and Eshan counties (Xu & Bai 2013:1). The ethnic population of each township is as follows.
- Xinping County
- Pingdian å¹³ç¸乡 (1,862 people)
- Guishan æ¡Âå±±é (756 people)
- Yangwu æ¨æ¦é (1,203 people)
- Xinhua æ°åÂÂ乡 (2,205 people)
- Laochang èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ乡 (381 people)
- Yaojie èÂ
°è¡Âé (255 people)
- Gasa Ã¥ÂÂæ´Âé (155 people)
- Mosha æ¼ æ²Âé (412 people)
- Yuanjiang County
- Ganzhuangjie çÂÂåºÂè¡Âé (3,950 people)
- Wadie æ´¼å¤乡 (102 people)
- Longtan é¾Âæ½Â乡 (1,560 people)
- Eshan County
- Tadian å¡Âç¸é (1,725 people)
- Fuliangpeng å¯Âè¯æ£Â乡 (371 people)
- Shiping County
- Daqiao 大桥乡 (312 people)
- Baoxiu å®Âç§Âé (433 people)
- Shuangbai County (81 people)
- Zhenyuan County (150 people): Zhedong èÂÂ
ä¸Â乡 Zhangpen æ¨ÂçÂÂæÂÂ, Heping Ã¥ÂÂ平乡 Yakou 丫å£æÂÂ
Speakers refer to their language as ' (Xu & Bai 2013:62). The Hlersu dialect documented by Xu & Bai (2013) is that of Pujiehei æ®æ°é»Â, Daxi Village 大西æÂÂ, Tadian Town å¡Âç¸éÂÂ, Eshan County.
References
- Xu Xianmin [许é²ÂæÂÂ], Bai Bibo [ç½碧波] (2013). A study of Shansu [å±±èÂÂå½Âè¯Âç Â究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [æ°ÂæÂÂåºçÂÂ社].