Haya language

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Haya (OluHaya, Swahili:Kihaya) is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, to the south and southwest of Lake Victoria. In 1991, the population of Haya speakers was estimated at 1,200,000 people [1].

[edit] Trivia

The Haya language can be heard in the film Return of the Jedi (1983), from the Star Wars series. The character Nien Nunb, of the fictional Sullustan species, was voiced by a Kenyan named Kipsang Rotich in his native tongue.

[edit] 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.)

[edit] 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.