Haya (Oruhaya) is a Bantu language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, in the south and southwest coast of Lake Victoria. In 1991, the population of Haya speakers was estimated at 1,200,000 people [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hay]. Its closest relative is the Nyambo language and it is also closely related to the languages of western Uganda such as Nyoro-Tooro and Nkore-Kiga which all form a group called Rutara.
Maho (2009) classifies JE221 Rashi as closest to Haya.
Grammar
Tense
Haya has nine tenses. These are the present progressive, the present habitual, the past habitual and the perfect, alongside two future tenses and three past tenses. The future tense F<sub>2</sub> refers to the distant future whilst F<sub>1</sub> refers to the near future. P<sub>1</sub> refers to the most recent past - events that have occurred earlier in the day, P<sub>2</sub> refers to events that happened yesterday and P<sub>3</sub>, the most distant past, refers to events that happened before yesterday.