Hehe language page

Classification and where spoken

Hehe belongs to the Bena-Kinga group of Bantoid (G62) of Benue-Congo. It is spoken in Tanzania south of the Great Ruaha River.

Number of speakers

Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) estimate 190,000 speakers of Hehe, while Grimes (1996) cites a figure at 750,000 neighboring Hausa (Schuh, personal communication, 1985).

Usage

Hehe is a local language.

Orthographic status

Unknown to us as of this writing.

Sets of learning materials

Presumably one set of learning materials should be sufficient for Hehe.