| Honi | |
| States: | Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar |
| Ethnicity: | Hani |
| Speakers: | 140,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Lolo–Burmese |
| Fam4: | Loloish |
| Fam5: | Southern |
| Fam6: | Hanoid |
| Dia1: | Baihong |
| Dia2: | Haoni |
| Iso3: | how |
| Glotto: | honi1244 |
| Glottorefname: | Honi |
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, 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. Honi itself is divided into two distinct dialects, Baihong and Haoni, which may be separate languages.
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| pronounced as /pʰ/ | pronounced as /tʰ/ | pronounced as /tsʰ/ | pronounced as /tʃʰ/ | pronounced as /tɕʰ/ | pronounced as /kʰ/ | |||
| Continuant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Back | ||||||
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Low-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Syllabic | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphthong | Close | pronounced as /iu/ | pronounced as /ui/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /io/ | pronounced as /iɔ/ | pronounced as /uɛ/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ia/ | pronounced as /ua/ | ||
| Nasal | Close | pronounced as /ĩ/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ɛ̃/ | pronounced as /õ/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ã/ | |||
| Nasal Diphthong | Mid | pronounced as /ĩɛ̃/ | pronounced as /ĩõ/ | pronounced as /ũɛ̃/ |
| Open | pronounced as /ĩã/ | pronounced as /ũã/ | ||