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Habei (Chinese: 哈备; also known as Mani 玛尼[1]) is a Southern Loloish language of Yunnan, China. Hsiu (2018)[2] suggests that Habei belongs to the Bisoid branch.

Habei
Native to	China
Region	Yunnan
Ethnicity	Hani
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Southern Bisoid Habei
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Background

Habei is spoken in only one village, namely Habei village 哈备村,[3] Zhemi Township 者米乡, Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan (Jinping County Ethnic Gazetteer 2013:89, 101).[4] The Habei people refer to their village as Kuang An (况安), meaning 'old village' (< kuang 'village' + an 'old').[5]

The Habei still preserve traditional animist rituals.[1]

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

Names

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

• autonym: ma³³nɛ³³ (蛮尼)
• Yao exonym: ta⁵⁵ka³³ (单嘎)
• Lahu exonym: xa⁴²pe⁵⁵ (哈背)
• Miao exonym: xa³³pe⁵³ (哈备)
• Zhuang exonym: je³³u⁵⁵ (牙乌)
• Hani exonym: xa³³pi⁵⁵, xa³³bø⁵⁵ (哈备)

Phonology

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).

Phrase examples

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

tɕen⁵⁵	ɲi³²³	lum²⁴
bowl	two	CLS

Two bowls

ɣa³³	sum⁵⁵	na⁵⁵
chicken	three	CLS

Three chickens

kʰɤ tɕʰɔ³³	ŋa²⁴	tɕuŋ⁵⁵
shoe	five	pair

Five pairs of shoes

na³³	ŋɤ³³	tɕʰɛ³²³ma³³
2.SG	POS	hoe

Your hoe

ja³³tɕʰa³²³	ŋɤ³³	a³³xɤn³³
friend	POS	sound

Friend's voice

Sentence examples

The following Habei sentence examples are from Yan (1995:68-69). Habei has SOV word order.

ŋa³³	xaŋ²⁴	iaŋ²⁴
1.SG	rice	eat

I eat rice.

na³³	ti³³kʰa⁵⁵	taŋ⁵⁵
2.SG	liquor	drink

You drink liquor.

ŋa³³	ja³³pjɔ⁵⁵	sum⁵⁵	jo³³	tɕa⁵⁵
1.SG	children	three	CLS	have

I have three children.

na³³	jɔ⁵⁵ka⁵⁵	tɕʰa⁵⁵	xa³³lo³²³	lo³³	tɕa⁵⁵
2.SG	household	people	how.many	CLS	have

How many people does your household have?

ja³³	la⁵⁵	a³²³	la⁵⁵
3.SG	come	NEG	come

Is he coming?

ve³²³	le³³	ɣa³³	lɔ³²³	dʑɛ³²³za³²³a⁵⁵	bɤ³³
pig	and	chicken	both	livestock	PRT

Pigs and chickens are both domestic livestock.

References

• He Shaoming 何绍明; Liu Jieting 刘洁婷. 2011. 国际哈尼/阿卡区域文化调查: 中国金平县者米哈尼族哈备人文化实录. Kunming: Yunnan People's Press 云南人民出版社. ISBN 978-7-222-07408-8
• Yan Hongxin [晏红兴]. 1995. "Jinpingxian Hanizu Habeiren qingkuang diaocha" [金平县哈尼族哈备人情况调查]. In Jinping shaoshu minzu de lishi he wenhua [金平少数民族的历史和文化], p.59-72. Kunming: Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House [云南民族出版社].
• You Weiqiong [尤伟琼]. 2013. Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan [云南民族识别研究]. Beijing: Nationalities Press [民族出版社].

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