Bai (2012) classifies Sadu as a Hani (Hanoish a.k.a. Southern Loloish) language, although the speakers are officially classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Bai. 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, Yuxi Prefecture, Yunnan (Bai 2012:3).
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.