Hanis, or Coos, was one of two Coosan languages

Coosan languages

The Coosan language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast. Both languages are now extinct.-Classification:* Hanis* Miluk...

 of Oregon, and the better documented. It was spoken north of the Miluk around the Coos River

Coos River

The Coos River flows for about into Coos Bay along the Pacific coast of southwest Oregon in the United States. Formed by the confluence of its major tributaries, the South Fork Coos River and the Millicoma River, it drains an important timber-producing region of the Southern Oregon Coast Range...

 and Coos Bay

Coos Bay

Coos Bay is an S-shaped inlet where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, approximately 10 miles long and two miles wide, on the Pacific Ocean coast of southwestern Oregon in the United States. The estuary is situated south of the Salmon River. The city of Coos Bay, once named Marshfield, was...

. The há·nis was the Hanis name for themselves. The last speaker of Hanis was Martha Johnson, who died in 1972.

Phonology

m	n
pʰ	tʰ	tsʰ	tɬʰ	tʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ
p	t	ts	tɬ	tʃ	k	q	ʔ
pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tɬʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
		s	ɬ	ʃ	x	χ	h
w			l	j	ɣ

The /p t ts tɬ tʃ k q/ series are optionally voiced. /l m n/ may be syllabic. Vowels /i e a u/ may be long or short; there is also a short /ə/. Stress is phonemic.