| Habei | |
| States: | China |
| Region: | Yunnan |
| Ethnicity: | Hani |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Lolo–Burmese |
| Fam4: | Loloish |
| Fam5: | Southern |
| Fam6: | Bisoid |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | none |
Habei (; 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 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).
Autonyms and exonyms for the Habei are as follows (Yan 1995:60).
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).
The following Habei phrase examples are from Yan (1995:69-70). Adjectives follow head nouns.
The following Habei sentence examples are from Yan (1995:68-69). Habei has SOV word order.