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    Hehe, also known as Kihehe, is a Bantu language spoken by approximately 810,000 people in Tanzania. It is part of the Niger-Congo language family and is closely related to other Bantu languages in the region such as Bena. Hehe has 15 noun classes that are marked by prefixes and a complex tense-aspect-mood verb system. The language has been influenced by Nguni languages but has retained most of its original features over the past 150 years.

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    Hehe, also known as Kihehe, is a Bantu language spoken by approximately 810,000 people in Tanzania. It is part of the Niger-Congo language family and is closely related to other Bantu languages in the region such as Bena. Hehe has 15 noun classes that are marked by prefixes and a complex tense-aspect-mood verb system. The language has been influenced by Nguni languages but has retained most of its original features over the past 150 years.

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    Hehe, also known as Kihehe, is a Bantu language spoken by approximately 810,000 people in Tanzania. It is part of the Niger-Congo language family and is closely related to other Bantu languages in the region such as Bena. Hehe has 15 noun classes that are marked by prefixes and a complex tense-aspect-mood verb system. The language has been influenced by Nguni languages but has retained most of its original features over the past 150 years.

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    Hehe

    Kihehe

    Native to Tanzania

    Ethnicity Hehe

    Native speakers 810,000 (2006)[1]

    Language family Niger–Congo

     Atlantic–Congo
    o Benue–Congo
     Southern
    Bantoid
     Ba
    ntu


    Language codes
    heh
    ISO 639-3
    hehe1240
    Glottolog

    Guthrie code G.62 [2]

    99-AUS-ua
    Linguasphere

    Hehe, also known by its native name Kihehe [kihehe], is a Bantu language that is


    spoken by the Hehe people of the Iringa region of Tanzania, lying south of the Great
    Ruaha River.[3] It was reported to have "Ngoni" features, that is, words of a Zulu-like
    language introduced when conquered by a Nguni or Zulu-like people in the early 19th
    century.[citation needed] However, other "Ngoni" speeches seem to have lost most of these
    distinctive features over the past 150-odd years, the language more resembling those of
    the neighbouring peoples.[citation needed] In 1977 it was estimated that 190,000 people spoke
    Hehe.[citation needed] There has been some Bible translation (British and Foreign Bible Society).
    Hehe may be mutually intelligible with Bena.[3]

    Grammar[edit]
    Hehe has 15 noun classes, marked with prefixes.[4]
    Hehe has a complex tense-aspect-mood system. [5]

    References[edit]
    1. ^ Hehe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
    3. ^ Jump up to:a b Dwyer, D. J., Yankee, E., & Michigan State Univ., E. r. (1985). African Language
    Resource Handbook: A Resource Handbook of the Eighty-two Highest Priority African Languages.
    Prepublication Edition. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED256170.pdf
    4. ^ David Odden, Introducing Phonology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 177.
    5. ^ Mtavangu, Norbert (2008). "Tense and aspect in Ikihehe".  Occasional Papers in
    Linguistics.  3: 34–41.

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