Haya

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Haya ( OluHaya )

Spoken in

Tanzania
Linguistic
classification

Niger Congo Languages

  • Haya
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

bnt

ISO 639-3

hay

Haya ( OluHaya , also Ziba ) belongs to the Haya-Jita subgroup of the Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania south and west of Lake Victoria .

The number of the Haya-speaking ethnic group of the same name was estimated at 1,300,000 in 2006. Their historical empire in this area was Buhaya .

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