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The Hani language (Hani: Haqniqdoq or xa31 ɲi31; simplified Chinese: 哈尼语; traditional Chinese: 哈尼語; pinyin: Hāníyǔ; Vietnamese: Tiếng Hà Nhì) is a language of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in China, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam by the Hani people.

For the more inclusive grouping of all languages spoken by the Hani nationality of China, see Hani languages.
Hani
Haqniqdoq
Native toLaos, Myanmar, South China, Vietnam
EthnicityHani
Native speakers
1,800,000 (2007, 1999, 1995)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
    • Lolo–Burmese
      • Loloish
        • Southern
          • Hanoid
            • Hani
Language codes
ISO 639-3hni
Glottologhani1248

Distribution


In China, Hani is spoken mostly in areas to the east of the Mekong River in south-central Yunnan province, mostly in Pu'er and Honghe prefectures, as well as in parts of other surrounding prefectures. Hani is also spoken in Lai Châu and Lào Cai provinces of northwestern Vietnam and in Phongsaly Province of Laos along the border with Yunnan.

Edmondson (2002) reports that the Hani of Vietnam are distributed in two provinces of northwestern Vietnam where two distinct dialects are found, one east of Muong Te and the other to the west. The Hani of Vietnam claim to be able to communicate in the Hani language with ethnic Hani from different areas of Vietnam despite significant geographical barriers. Edmondson (2002) reports that the different Hani speech varieties in Vietnam differ mostly in lexicon.


Phonology


Hani has three main tones and two types of short vowels.


Consonants


Consonants of the Luchun dialect
Labial Alveolar (Alveolo-)
palatal		 Velar
plainpal. plainsibilant
Plosive/
Affricate		 voiceless p pʲ t ts tɕ k
aspirated pʰ pʰʲ tʰ tsʰ tɕʰ kʰ
voiced b bʲ d dz dʑ ɡ
Fricative voiceless f s ɕ x
voiced z ɣ
Nasal m mʲ n ȵ ŋ
Approximant l j

Vowels


Vowel length in Hani is also distinctive.[2]

Vowels of the Luchun dialect
Front Central Back
High i ɯ u
Mid e ø ɤ o
ɔ
Low a
Syllabic ɹ̩
Front Back
Diphthong Close ue
Mid ie iɤ iɔ
Open ia ua

Orthography


Sign for the Lihaozhai Township High School, in Jianshui County, Yunnan, written in Hani (alphabetic), Yi (syllabic) and Chinese. The Chinese, if transcribed in Hanyu Pinyin, would be Jianshuixian Lihaozhai zhongxue.
Sign for the Lihaozhai Township High School, in Jianshui County, Yunnan, written in Hani (alphabetic), Yi (syllabic) and Chinese. The Chinese, if transcribed in Hanyu Pinyin, would be Jianshuixian Lihaozhai zhongxue.

Oral tradition tells of an ancient written script for Hani but says it was lost when the Hani migrated from Sichuan. In China, Standard Hani, which is based on the Lüchun County dialect, is written using a Romanized script developed by the Chinese government during the 1950s. As with the Latin-based scripts of the Zhuang, Hmong and Iu Mien languages, it uses final consonant letters to represent tone.

Consonants in Hani orthography are pronounced the same as in pinyin, with two additional digraphs for voiced fricatives in Hani. The IPA equivalents for letters in Hani orthography are provided below.[3]

HaniIPA
hhɣ
ssz

The vowels in Hani orthography are as follows.[3] After vowels, -v is used to mark tense vowels.

HaniIPA
aa
aoɔ
eɤ
eeɯ
eie
ii
oo
uu
yuø
iiɨ

There are four tones, which are marked by letters at the ends of words, or not at all for the mid-level [33].[3] Numerical Chao tones are provided below.

HaniIPA
l[55] (high level)
(none)[33] (mid level)
q[31] (low falling)
f[24] (rising)

Sample text


HaniEnglish
Aqsol liq yoqdeivq yoqpyuq bo, meeqyaovq ssolnei colpyuq qiq kov dei. Davqtavcolssaq neenyuq bel neema meeq ya siq, laongaoq meilnaol nadul meil e gaq ssol hhyul hha bavqduv nia. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

See also



Notes


  1. Hani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Li & Wang (1986), pp. 3–16.
  3. Zhang (1998).

References





На других языках

- [en] Hani language

[fr] Hani (langue)

Le hani est une langue tibéto-birmane parlée en Chine, dans le Sud-Ouest du Yunnan par environ 500 000 Hani.

[ru] Хани (язык)

Хани (самоназв. Haqniqdoq; кит. трад. 哈尼語, упр. 哈尼语, пиньинь Hāníyǔ, палл. ханиюй; тьенг ха ни (вьетн. Tiếng Hà Nhì)) — язык народа хани. Относится к лоло-бирманским языкам. Число носителей — более 750 тыс. чел. Из них 740 тыс. проживают в Китае (провинция Юньнань), 17,5 тыс. — во Вьетнаме, 1,1 тыс. — в Лаосе.


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