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 Tibeto-Burman linguistic group spoken in

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

, China. The Chinese government groups speakers of this language into the Hani nationality, one of China's 56 recognized nationalities and considers the language to be a dialect of the wider

Hani languages The Hani languages are a group of closely related but distinct languages of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic group. They are also referred to as the Hanoid languages by Lama (2012) and as the Akoid languages by Bradley (20 ...

. Honi itself is divided into two distinct dialects, Baihong and Haoni, which may be separate languages.

Phonology

Consonants

A voiceless // may also be realized as a lateral fricative [].

Vowels

In the Mojiang dialect, vowel length is distinctive among vowels // and syllabic vowels //.

References

*Wang Hongxiao [王红晓]; Zhao Dewen ��德文 2017. ''Zhongguo Mojiang Hanizu Haoniren wenhua shilu'' ��国墨江哈尼族豪尼人文化实录 Kunming: Yunnan People's Press ��南人民出版社 Southern Loloish languages Languages of China {{st-lang-stub