Region Tanzania Native speakers 1.3 million (2006) Glottolog haya1250 | Ethnicity Haya people ISO 639-3 hay | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Great Lakes Bantu
Haya–Jita (J.20)
Haya | ||
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 [1].
Maho (2009) classifies JE221 Rashi as closest to Haya. It has no ISO code.
References
Haya language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA