Havu language
Not to be confused with Hawu language.
Havu | |
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Kihavu | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Region | Sud-Kivu Province |
Native speakers | 510,000 (2002)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 |
hav |
Glottolog |
havu1238 [2] |
JD.52 [3] |
Havu or Haavu is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken mainly in the Idjwi and Kalehe territories of Sud-Kivu Province, in the east of the DRC.[4] It is very close to the Shi language.
References
- ↑ Havu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Havu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ "Ethnologue". Retrieved 28 March 2013.
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