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Ha
Ha
Igiha
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Abaha
Native speakers	990,000 (2001)
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
Guthrie code	JD.66

Ha, also known with the Bantu language prefix as Giha, Igiha, 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.^[3]

Phonology edit

		Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m		n	ɲ
Plosive	voiceless	p		t		k
Plosive	voiced	b		d	ɟ	ɡ
Affricate			p͡f	t͡s	t͡ʃ
Fricative	voiceless		f	s	ʃ		h
Fricative	voiced	(β)	v	z
Tap				ɾ
Approximant				(l)	j	w

^ Ha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.
^ Harjula, Lotta (2006). Designing orthography for the Ha language. In Studia Orientalia Electronica, 103: Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Soc. pp. 173–184.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

Ha
Igiha
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Abaha
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`
Guthrie code	`JD.66`^[2]