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{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China and Southeast Asia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Honi
|nativename=
|states=Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Burma
|region=
|ethnicity=Hani
|speakers=140,000
|date=2007
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=Lolo–Burmese
|fam4=[[Social:Loloish languages|Loloish]]
|fam5=Southern
|fam6=Hanoid
|dia1=[[Social:Baihong language|Baihong]]
|dia2=Haoni
|iso3=how
|glotto=honi1244
|glottorefname=Honi
}}
The '''Honi language''' (豪尼語), also known as Haoni, Baihong, Hao-Bai, or Ho, is a language of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in Yunnan, {{wipe|China}}. The Chinese government groups speakers of this language into the Hani nationality, one of China's 56 recognized nationalities and considers the language to be a dialect of the wider [[Social:Hani languages|Hani languages]]. Honi itself is divided into two distinct dialects, Baihong and Haoni, which may be separate languages.

== Phonology ==

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Consonants of the Mojiang dialect
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
! rowspan="2" | Labial
! colspan="2" | Alveolar
! rowspan="2" | Post-<br />alveolar
! rowspan="2" | Palatal
! rowspan="2" | Velar
|-
! {{small|plain}}
! {{small|sibilant}}
|-
! colspan="2" | Nasal
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| {{IPAlink|n}}
|
|
| {{IPAlink|ȵ}}
| {{IPAlink|ŋ}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | Plosive/<br>Affricate
! {{small|unaspirated}}
| {{IPAlink|p}}
| {{IPAlink|t}}
| {{IPAlink|ts}}
| {{IPAlink|tʃ}}
| {{IPAlink|tɕ}}
| {{IPAlink|k}}
|-
! {{small|aspirated}}
| {{IPA|pʰ}}
| {{IPA|tʰ}}
| {{IPA|tsʰ}}
| {{IPA|tʃʰ}}
| {{IPA|tɕʰ}}
| {{IPA|kʰ}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | Continuant
! {{small|voiceless}}
| {{IPAlink|f}}
| {{IPAlink|l̥}}
| {{IPAlink|s}}
| {{IPAlink|ʃ}}
| {{IPAlink|ɕ}}
| {{IPAlink|x}}
|-
! {{small|voiced}}
| {{IPAlink|v}}
| {{IPAlink|l}}
| {{IPAlink|z}}
| {{IPAlink|ʒ}}
|
| {{IPAlink|ɣ}}
|-
! colspan="2" | Semivowel
| {{IPAlink|w}}
|
|
|
| {{IPAlink|j}}
|
|}
A voiceless /{{IPA|l̥}}/ may also be realized as a lateral fricative [{{IPA|ɬ}}].

=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Vowels of the Mojiang dialect
!
! colspan="2" |Front
!Central
! colspan="2" |Back
|-
!High
| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|i}}
|
|{{IPAlink|ɯ}}
|{{IPAlink|u}}
|-
!High-mid
| colspan="2" |
|
|{{IPAlink|ɤ}}
|{{IPAlink|o}}
|-
!Low-mid
| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ɛ}}
|
| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ɔ}}
|-
!Low
| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|æ}}
|{{IPAlink|a}}
| colspan="2" |
|-
!Syllabic
|{{IPAlink|v̩}}
|{{IPAlink|ɹ̩}}
|
| colspan="2" |
|}
In the Mojiang dialect, vowel length is distinctive among vowels /{{IPA|iː ɛː}}/ and syllabic vowels /{{IPA|v̩ː ɹ̩ː}}/.<ref>{{Cite book|title=哈尼语简志 / Ha ni yu jian zhi|last=Yongsui|first=Li|last2=Ersong|first2=Wang|publisher=Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe|year=1986|pages=3–16}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |Front
!Back
|-
! rowspan="3" |Diphthong
!Close
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|iu}}
|{{IPA|ui}}
|-
!Mid
|{{IPA|io}}
|{{IPA|iɔ}}
|{{IPA|uɛ}}
|-
!Open
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ia}}
|{{IPA|ua}}
|-
! rowspan="3" |Nasal
!Close
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ĩ}}
|
|-
!Mid
|{{IPA|ɛ̃}}
|{{IPA|õ}}
|
|-
!Open
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ã}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |Nasal<br>Diphthong
!Mid
|{{IPA|ĩɛ̃}}
|{{IPA|ĩõ}}
|{{IPA|ũɛ̃}}
|-
!Open
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ĩã}}
|{{IPA|ũã}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
*Wang Hongxiao [王红晓]; Zhao Dewen [赵德文]. 2017. ''Zhongguo Mojiang Hanizu Haoniren wenhua shilu'' [中国墨江哈尼族豪尼人文化实录]. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press [云南人民出版社].

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