Hehe

E614314

Hehe is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Hehe people of south-central Tanzania.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hehe canonical 5
Hehe people 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternateName Kihehe
continent Africa
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Hehe people
linked to: Hehe
glottologCode hehe1240
glottologName Hehe
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu
Proto-Niger–Congo
hasDialects Hehe dialects
hasNounClassSystem yes
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Bena (language)
linked to: Bena language

Kinga (language)
ISO639-3Code heh
isSpokenBy native speakers in south-central Tanzania
languageBranch Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
languageFamily Bantu
languageGroup Bena–Kinga group
linked to: Ruvu group
languageSubfamily Northeast Bantu languages
linked to: Northeast Bantu
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
primaryCountry Tanzania
region Iringa Region
Morogoro Region
spokenIn Tanzania
spokenInRegion south-central Tanzania
usedBy Hehe people
linked to: Hehe
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iringa Region language Hehe
Iringa Region ethnicGroup Hehe people
linked to: Hehe
Hehe ethnicGroup Hehe people
linked to: Hehe
Hehe usedBy Hehe people
linked to: Hehe
Hehe glottologName Hehe