Honi language
| Honi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Southern |
| Ethnicity | Hani |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2007)[1] |
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | how |
| Glottolog | honi1244 |
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
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/.[2]
| 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) (subscription required)
- ^ 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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