Haya language

Haya language

Infobox Language
name=Haya
nativename=OluHaya
region=TAN
speakers=about 1,200,000.
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
fam6=Southern Bantoid
fam7=Narrow Bantoid
fam8=Central Narrow Bantoid
fam9="J" Central Narrow Bantoid
fam10=Haya-Jita (J.20)

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 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hay] .

External links

*http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=hay
*http://www.african.gu.se/tanzania/weblinks.html
*http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/CBOLD/Docs/TLS.html (THis webpage contains a Haya wordlist.)

References

*Maho, Jouni & Bonny Sands. 2002. "The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography". (Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, no 17.) Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Pp ix, 428. ISBN 91-7346-454-6

This bibliography mentions other references like:
*Betbeder, Paul; Jones, John. 1949. A handbook of the Haya language. Bukoba (Tanganyika): White Fathers Printing Press.
*Byarushengo, Ernest Rugwa; Duranti, Alessandro; Hyman, Larry M [ichael] . (Eds.) 1977. Haya grammatical structure: phonology, grammar, discourse. (Southern California occasional papers in linguistics (SCOPIL), no 6.) Los Angeles: Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California. Pp 213.
*Herrmann, [Kapitän] C. 1904. Lusíba, die Sprache der Länder Kisíba, Bugábu, Kjamtwára, Kjánja und Ihángiro. Mitteilungen des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen, 7 (III. Abt.), pp. 150-200.
*Kaji, Shigeki. (Ed.) 1998. Haya. (Textbooks for language training.) Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
*Kaji, Shigeki. 2000. Haya vocabulary. (Asian and African lexicon series, no 37.) Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Pp 532. [ISBN 4-87297-772-6]
*Kuijpers, Em. 1922. Grammaire de la langue haya. Boxtel (Hollande): Prokuur van de Witte Paters. Pp 294.
*Rehse, Hermann. 1912/13. Die Sprache der Baziba in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen, 3, pp. 1-33, 81-123, 201-229.


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