Ha (African people)
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Name (Latin)
Ha (African people)
Other forms of name
Abaha (African people)
Abuja (African people)
Baha (African people)
Buha (African people)
Giha (African people)
Ikiha (African people)
Kiha (African people)
Waha (African people)
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Ethnology Tanzania
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q2995962
Library of congress:
sh 00008829
Sources of Information
- Scherer, J.H. Marriage and bride-wealth in the highlands of Buha (Tanganyika), 1965.
- Ethnologue, Sept. 25, 2000(Ha (Giha, Kiha, Ikiha))
- African ethn. and top.:p. 156 (Ha (Baha, Waha, Abuja, Abaha))
- Murdock world cult.:p. 72 (Ha (Abaha, Waha))
- Biebuyck. African ethnonyms:p. 102 (Ha (Burundi, Tanzania) var. Buha)
- Africana, encyc. of African and African American experience:p. 901 (Ha; ethnic group of Tanzania; primarily inhabit northwestern Tanzania; speak a Bantu language)
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Wikipedia description:
The Ha, also called Abaha (Waha in Swahili), are a Bantu ethnic group found in Kigoma Region in northwestern Tanzania bordering Lake Tanganyika. In 2001, the Ha population was estimated to number between 1 and 1.5 million, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in ethnically diverse Tanzania. Their language is a Bantu language, and is called the Ha language, also called Kiha, Ikiha or Giha. It is closely related to the Kirundi and Kinyarwanda spoken in neighbouring Burundi and Rwanda, and belongs to the Niger-Congo family of languages.
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