Hema language
Bantu language of DR Congo
Hema | |
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Oruhema | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Ethnicity | Hema |
Native speakers | (130,000 cited 2000)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | nix |
Glottolog | hema1238 |
JE.121 [2] |
Hema | |
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Person | Muhema |
People | Bahema |
Language | Oruhema |
Hema is a Bantu language and one of three languages spoken by the Hema people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hema is sometimes called Southern Hema in contrast to the unrelated language Lendu, also known as Northern Hema.
References
[edit]- ^ Hema at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Further reading
[edit]- Mugisa, John Mwesigwa (2012-01-30). "The Syntactic Structure of the VP in Kihema". Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics. 40. doi:10.5774/40-0-36. ISSN 2223-9936.
- Mugisa, John Mwesigwa (2005). The verb phrase in Kihema (Thesis). University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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