ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 hts · Glottocode hadz1240

Hadza

Hadza represents a distinct classificatory case: a Tanzanian language isolate marked as shifting and likely written in Latin script.

Language family
Language isolate
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
shifting
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
TZ
Reference point
-3.831, 35.046

Open research question

How do community-proximate sources describe self-naming, transmission and writing without hardening external categories?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.