Social:Honi language
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Short description: Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China and Southeast Asia
| Honi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Burma |
| Ethnicity | Hani |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | how |
| Glottolog | honi1244[2] |
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, 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 Hani languages. Honi itself is divided into two distinct dialects, Baihong and Haoni, which may be separate languages.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ȵ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
unaspirated | p | t | ts | tʃ | tɕ | k |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tsʰ | tʃʰ | tɕʰ | kʰ | |
| Continuant | voiceless | f | l̥ | s | ʃ | ɕ | x |
| voiced | v | l | z | ʒ | ɣ | ||
| Semivowel | w | j | |||||
A voiceless /l̥/ may also be realized as a lateral fricative [ɬ].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɯ | u | ||
| High-mid | ɤ | o | |||
| Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |||
| Low | æ | a | |||
| Syllabic | v̩ | ɹ̩ | |||
In the Mojiang dialect, vowel length is distinctive among vowels /iː ɛː/ and syllabic vowels /v̩ː ɹ̩ː/.[3]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphthong | Close | iu | ui | |
| Mid | io | iɔ | uɛ | |
| Open | ia | ua | ||
| Nasal | Close | ĩ | ||
| Mid | ɛ̃ | õ | ||
| Open | ã | |||
| Nasal Diphthong |
Mid | ĩɛ̃ | ĩõ | ũɛ̃ |
| Open | ĩã | ũã | ||
References
- ↑ Honi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Honi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/honi1244.
- ↑ Yongsui, Li; Ersong, Wang (1986). 哈尼语简志 / Ha ni yu jian zhi. Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe. pp. 3–16.
- 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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