Habei (; also known as Mani 玛尼哈备村玛尼人传统思维方式探析
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Loloish language The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its rel ...

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Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages
suggests that Habei belongs to the Bisoid branch.

Background

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 Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County () is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lai Châu Province to the south. Jinping is home to the Red-headed Yao () minority group who wear ...

, 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').Dao Jie ��洁. 2012. 哈备村:哈尼文化兼收并蓄的缩影. In ''Ethnic Today'' ��日民族br>2012(9)
The Habei still preserve traditional animist rituals. The Habei language has been documented by Yan (1995) and He & Liu (2011).

Names

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s and

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s for the Habei are as follows (Yan 1995:60). *autonym: (蛮尼) *Yao exonym: (单嘎) *Lahu exonym: (哈背) *Miao exonym: (哈备) *Zhuang exonym: (牙乌) *Hani exonym: , (哈备)

Phonology

Habei has 32

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s (Yan 1995:67). The

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is similar to that of standard Hani of

Lüchun County Lüchun County () is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the south of Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lai Châu Province to the south. Administrative divisions In the present, Lüchun County has 4 towns and 5 town ...

, 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

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Sentence examples

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

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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. *Yan Hongxin ��红兴 1995. "Jinpingxian Hanizu Habeiren qingkuang diaocha" ��平县哈尼族哈备人情况调查 In ''Jinping shaoshu minzu de lishi he wenhua'' ��平少数民族的历史和文化 p.59-72. Kunming: Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House ��南民族出版社 *You Weiqiong ��伟琼 2013. ''Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan'' ��南民族识别研究 Beijing: Nationalities Press ��族出版社 {{Lolo-Burmese languages Southern Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan