Hadza
Hadza is a language isolate spoken in Tanzania, by about 800 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Hadza is spoken by about a thousand hunter-gatherers near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. It has clicks, like the languages of southern Africa, yet no proven relationship to them — an isolate.
Hadza is a language isolate spoken along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania by around 1,000 Hadza people, who include in their number the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. It is one of only three languages in East Africa with click consonants. Despite the small number of speakers, language use is vigorous, with most children learning it, but UNESCO categorizes the language as vulnerable.
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Words in Hadza
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| nose | ʔìntʰàwè- | |
| water | atibii | |
| rain | ati | |
| mountain | ǁʼùƛʼè-yà | |
| tree | cʼìtí-yà | |
| fish | ǀʼàmá-à | |
| one | itchâme | |
| two | konxa | |
| three | samaka and inflections | |
| four | bone and inflections | |
| five | botano | |
| ten | ikhumi | |
| I | ono | |
| you | the | |
| big | pakapaa |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · hadz1240 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · hts