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Habei language

Habei (Chinese: 哈备; also known as Mani 玛尼) is a Southern Loloish language of Yunnan, China. Hsiu (2018) suggests that Habei belongs to the Bisoid branch.

Habei is spoken in only one village, namely Habei village 哈备村, Zhemi Township 者米乡, Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan (Jinping County Ethnic Gazetteer 2013:89, 101). The Habei people refer to their village as Kuang An (况安), meaning 'old village' (< kuang 'village' + an 'old').

The Habei still preserve traditional animist rituals.

The Habei language has been documented by Yan (1995) and He & Liu (2011).

Autonyms and exonyms for the Habei are as follows (Yan 1995:60).

Habei has 32 onsets and 62 rimes (Yan 1995:67). The consonant inventory is similar to that of standard Hani of Lüchun County, but also has /f/ and /v/, which Lüchun Hani does not have. Final consonants are -p, -t, -k, -m, -n, and -ŋ.

There are 6 tones. In songs, only 4 tones are recognizable (Yan 1995:67).

The following Habei phrase examples are from Yan (1995:69-70). Adjectives follow head nouns.

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