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Hani

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

A Tibeto-Burman people living in Yunnan, China, Vietnam, and Laos, where they are also known as Ho.

noun

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    A Tibeto-Burman people living in Yunnan, China, Vietnam, and Laos, where they are also known as Ho.

    “Everyone was wearing designer labels,” said Zhelu, 22, a farmer who is a member of the region’s Hani minority and uses only one name. “A lot of people bought cars, but now we can’t afford gas so we just park them.”

Etymology

From Hani Haqniq, probably via Mandarin 哈尼 (Hāní).

proper noun

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    The Loloish language spoken by Hani people, closely related to Akha.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).