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Language code: her

Technical information about ISO 639 language code her

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The table below provides technical details for the Herero language, designated by the her code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

her

Name

Official

Herero

Native

Otjiherero

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Herero ProperMbanderu
Related languages
HimbaKuvaleKwanyamaNdonga
Key facts
Belongs to the Southwest Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo familyNouns fall into a rich system of 18+ concord classes that control agreement across the sentenceTone is phonemic and distinguishes both lexical meaning and grammatical categoriesWritten tradition began with missionary Bible translations in the late 1800sModern orthography uses the Latin alphabet with digraphs such as ‘tj’ and ‘ok’ that reflect characteristic consonants and noun prefixes.
Sample phrase

Okaraone, kape nawa?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Herero language, identified by the code her, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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