Английская Википедия:Hehe language
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox language
Hehe, also known by its native name Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:IPA-sw, is a Bantu language that is spoken by the Hehe people of the Iringa region of Tanzania, lying south of the Great Ruaha River.[1] It was reported to have "Ngoni" features, that is, words of a Zulu-like language introduced when conquered by a Nguni or Zulu-like people in the early 19th century.Шаблон:Citation needed However, other "Ngoni" speeches seem to have lost most of these distinctive features over the past 150-odd years, the language more resembling those of the neighbouring peoples.Шаблон:Citation needed In the 1970s, it was estimated that 190,000 people spoke Hehe.[2] There has been some Bible translation (British and Foreign Bible Society). Hehe may be mutually intelligible with Bena.[1]
Grammar
Hehe has 15 noun classes, marked with prefixes.[3]
Hehe has a complex tense-aspect-mood system.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | |
| voiced | v | (z) | ||||
| prenasal | ⁿz | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
- [ʍ] can be heard as an allophone of /w/ among speakers in free variation.
- [z] occurs in the language, but is mainly heard as an allophone of /s/ after nasal sounds, or as a result of Swahili loanwords.[5]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
References
Шаблон:Languages of Tanzania Шаблон:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H) Шаблон:Authority control
