Hemba language

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Hemba
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region Katanga province
Ethnicity Hemba people
Native speakers
180,000 (2000) [1]
Dialects
  • Yazi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hem
Glottolog hemb1242 [2]
L.34, L.202 [3]

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References

  1. Hemba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hemba-Yazi". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online