Hema language
{{Short description|Bantu language of DR Congo}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Hema
|nativename = {{lang|nix|Oruhema}}
|states = Democratic Republic of the Congo
|ethnicity = Hema
|speakers = {{sigfig|125,000|2}}
|date = 2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Volta-Congo
|fam4=Benue–Congo
|fam5=Bantoid
|fam6=Southern Bantoid
|fam7=Bantu
|fam8=Northeast Bantu
|fam9=Great Lakes Bantu
|fam10=West Nyanza
|fam11=Rutara
|fam12=North Rutara
|iso3 = nix
|glotto=hema1238
|glottorefname=Hema
|guthrie = JE.121
}}
{{Infobox ethnonym||||||root=Hema|person=Muhema|language= Oruhema |people=Bahema|country= }}
Hema is a Bantu language and one of three languages spoken by the Hema people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hema is sometimes called Southern Hema in contrast to the unrelated language Lendu, also known as Northern Hema.
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite journal |last=Mugisa |first=John Mwesigwa |date=2012-01-30 |title=The Syntactic Structure of the VP in Kihema |url=http://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/36 |journal=Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics |volume=40 |doi=10.5774/40-0-36 |issn=2223-9936|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Mugisa |first=John Mwesigwa |title=The verb phrase in Kihema. |date=2005 |publisher=University of KwaZulu-Natal |url=https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/items/2625d401-b3b0-4931-b0df-20ddd3bd751f |language=en}}
{{Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H)}}
{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}}
Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Nyoro-Ganda languages
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