Haya language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo languages

• Bantu languages

• Haya

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Bnt

Hay

Haya ( OluHaya, Ziba ) belongs to Haya - Jita subgroup of the Bantu languages ​​spoken south and west of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

The number of Haya -speaking ethnic group of the same name in 1991 estimated at 1,200,000. Its historic kingdom in this area was Buhaya.

The Haya language appeared in the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi on. That way the voice of the fictional character Nien Nunb of Kipsang Rotich, a Kenyan, who is featured in the film in his native language.