Haya language

Haya
Ziba
OluhayaOruhaya'
Region Tanzania
Ethnicity Haya people
Native speakers
1.3 million (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hay
Glottolog haya1250[2]
JE.22[3]

Haya (Oluhaya; Swahili: Kihaya) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, in the south and southwest coast of Lake Victoria. In 1991, the population of Haya speakers was estimated at 1,200,000 people .

Maho (2009) classifies JE221 Rashi as closest to Haya. It has no ISO code.

References

  1. Haya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Haya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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