Ha language

Ha
	Ikiha
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Ha
Native speakers	990,000 (2001)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Rwanda-Rundi Ha; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	haq
Glottolog	haaa1252[2]
Guthrie code	JD.66[3]

Ha, also known with the Bantu language prefix as Giha, Ikiha, or Kiha, is a Bantu language spoken by the Ha people of the Kigoma Region of Tanzania, spoken on the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika up to the headwaters of the Mikonga. It is closely related to the languages of Rwanda and Burundi; neighboring dialects are reported to be mutually intelligible with Kirundi.[4]

References

Ha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Article by Spiridion Shyirambere in: Le Français hors de France sous la direction de A. Valdman, Editions Honoré Champion, 7 quai Mallasquai, Paris, 1979. The "zone of intercomprehension" is also reported to include KinyaRwanda, Hima and Luganda, and several other local languages.

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[e18-1] Ha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-3] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[4] Article by Spiridion Shyirambere in: Le Français hors de France sous la direction de A. Valdman, Editions Honoré Champion, 7 quai Mallasquai, Paris, 1979. The "zone of intercomprehension" is also reported to include KinyaRwanda, Hima and Luganda, and several other local languages.