Kiha

E177052

Kiha is a Bantu language spoken by the Ha people of the Kigoma region in western Tanzania.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kiha canonical 2

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Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
closelyRelatedTo Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Vinza language
continent Africa
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Ha people
glottocode kiha1239
hasAlternativeName Giha
Ha
Kgiha
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone language
hasNeighborLanguage Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
influencedBy Swahili (lexical borrowing)
ISO639-3Code jih
languageFamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu
locatedIn East Africa
macrolanguage Bantu languages
nationalLanguageOf none (not an official national language)
region western Tanzania
spokenAlong eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika
spokenBy Ha people
spokenIn Kigoma Region
Tanzania
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages
Northeast Coast Bantu languages
surface form: Northeast Bantu languages
usedBy Ha people in daily communication
usedIn traditional Ha cultural practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ha people language Kiha