Habei language

Habei
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

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.

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

bowl

ɲi³²³

two

lum²⁴

CL

Two bowls

ɣa³³

chicken

sum⁵⁵

three

na⁵⁵

CL

Three chickens

kʰɤ tɕʰɔ³³

shoe

ŋa²⁴

five

tɕuŋ⁵⁵

pair

Five pairs of shoes

na³³

2SG

ŋɤ³³

POS

tɕʰɛ³²³ma³³

hoe

Your hoe

ja³³tɕʰa³²³

friend

ŋɤ³³

POS

a³³xɤn³³

sound

Friend's voice

Sentence examples

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

ŋa³³

1SG

xaŋ²⁴

rice

iaŋ²⁴

eat

I eat rice.

na³³

2SG

ti³³kʰa⁵⁵

liquor

taŋ⁵⁵

drink

You drink liquor.

ŋa³³

1SG

ja³³pjɔ⁵⁵

children

sum⁵⁵

three

jo³³

CL

tɕa⁵⁵

have

I have three children.

na³³

2SG

jɔ⁵⁵ka⁵⁵

household

tɕʰa⁵⁵

people

xa³³lo³²³

how.many

lo³³

CL

tɕa⁵⁵

have

How many people does your household have?

ja³³

3SG

la⁵⁵

come

a³²³

NEG

la⁵⁵

come

Is he coming?

ve³²³

pig

le³³

and

ɣa³³

chicken

lɔ³²³

both

dʑɛ³²³za³²³a⁵⁵

livestock

bɤ³³

PRT

Pigs and chickens are both domestic livestock.

References

^ ^a ^b 哈备村玛尼人传统思维方式探析
^ Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages.
^ "金平苗族瑶族傣族自治县者米拉祜族乡顶青村委会哈备村". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
^ 金平苗族瑶族傣族自治县民族志1979-2010. 金平苗族瑶族傣族自治県民族宗教事務局編. 雲南民族出版社. 2013年8月. ISBN 9787536757028
^ Dao Jie [刀洁] . 2012. 哈备村:哈尼文化兼收并蓄的缩影. In Ethnic Today [今日民族], 2012(9) Archived 2017-12-12 at the Wayback Machine.

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].

[Yang-1] 哈备村玛尼人传统思维方式探析

[Hsiu2018-2] Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages.

[3] "金平苗族瑶族傣族自治县者米拉祜族乡顶青村委会哈备村". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2015-05-29.

[4] 金平苗族瑶族傣族自治县民族志1979-2010. 金平苗族瑶族傣族自治県民族宗教事務局編. 雲南民族出版社. 2013年8月. ISBN 9787536757028

[5] Dao Jie [刀洁] . 2012. 哈备村:哈尼文化兼收并蓄的缩影. In Ethnic Today [今日民族], 2012(9) Archived 2017-12-12 at the Wayback Machine.

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