Ha Language Corpus (ha-corpus)

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This corpus of spoken Ha language consists of transcripts of elicited types of natural speech (stories and elicited sentences) collected in the towns of Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma and nearby regions in Tanzania during the years 1997, 2000 and 2003. The original transcripts have been pseudonymized.
Ha language (ISO 639-3: haq; Great Lakes Bantu language JD66; alternative names Igiha, Giha, Kiha) is spoken in Western Tanzania in the Kigoma region. It is closely related to, for example, Rundi of Burundi and Kinyarwanda of Rwanda. Ha is one of biggest languages in Tanzania with approximately 1,2 million speakers.

The collection and analysis of the corpus data is described in the following publication:
Harjula, Lotta 2004. The Ha Language of Tanzania: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabulary. East African Languages and Dialects 13. Cologne: Köppe. ISBN 978-3-89645-027-2.

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