 Their language is a Bantu language, and is called the Ha language, also called "Kiha", "Ikiha" or "Giha".It is closely related to the Kirundi and Kinyarwanda spoken in neighbouring Burundi and Rwanda, and belongs to the Niger-Congo family of languages.The Ha people call the lake bordering area they live in as Buha, and the region consists of grasslands and open woodlands.