Hadza language
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The Hadza language, also known as Hatsa, is spoken by the Hadza people of northern Tanzania. It is considered a Khoisan language, a unique group of African languages primarily spoken in southern Africa, with some outliers in eastern Africa.12
A distinctive feature of Khoisan languages is their extensive use of click consonants, although Hadza uses fewer clicks compared to other Khoisan languages. Unlike many other indigenous languages in the region that are endangered, Hadza has maintained its vitality due to stable bilingualism with Swahili.2
The Hadza language has a relatively simple word structure with few suffixes and no prefixes. Nouns are categorized into five classes based on the pronouns they select, with vague semantic bases for these classes. The typical sentence order is subject-verb-object.2
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