Alternate Names: Ishinyiha, Isinyixa, Kinyiha, Nyika, Nyixa, Shinyiha
Dialects: Mbozi, Sumbawanga. Reportedly similar to Lambya ,. Lexical similarity: 67% with Nyika, Tanzania ,; 74% with Malila ,; 71% with Safwa , (Roth 2011).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 306,000 in Tanzania (1987), increasing. Population total all countries: 662,000.
Language Use: Most domains except education, government. All ages. Very positive attitudes.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 0%. SIL has transition literacy work (Swahili to Nyiha). Grammar. NT: 1913–1966.
Typology: SVO; prepositions; noun head initial; noun classes; verbal affixation for subject, object, tense, aspect, mood and derivation; 34 consonant phonemes; 10 vowel phonemes; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Tanzania
Other Comments: Different from Nyika , (Kigiryama) of Kenya. Christian.