 Bijiang County has since been renamed as Lushui County.Jianchuan and Dali are closely related, and speakers are reported to be able to understand one another after living together for a month.The more divergent Northern dialects are spoken by about 15,000 Laemae ("", Lemei, Lama), a clan numbering about 50,000 people who are partly submerged within the Lisu.