Bai, Northern

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A language of China

Alternate Names
Bijang Bai, Laemae, Lama, Leme
Population

40,000 (2003).

Location

Northwest Yunnan, Nujiang and Lanping.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Dialects

Lanping, Nujiang.

Other Comments

Officially classified within Bai nationality. Classification difficult due to heavy borrowing (60%–70%) from Chinese. It is considered genetically related to Chinese, or a mixed language with Chinese, or related to Yi, or an independent branch of Tibeto-Burman. Traditional religion, Buddhist, Daoist.