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Hausa language

Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/;[2] Harshen/Halshen Hausa ; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast. A small number of speakers also exist in Sudan.[3][4][5]

Hausa

/ˈhaʊsə/

West Africa

Hausa

L1: 54 million (2021–2023)[1]

  • L2: 34 million (2021–2023)[1]
  • Total: 88 million (2021)[1]

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hau

hau

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Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family[6] and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Ethnologue estimated that it was spoken as a first language by some 54 million people and as a second language by another 34 million, bringing the total number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 88 million.[1]


In Nigeria, the Hausa film industry is known as Kannywood.[7]

Gibanawa

Jega, Nigeria

None[20]

Hausa-based pidgin

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Gibanawa

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

Hausa has between 23 and 25 consonant phonemes depending on the speaker.

A Hausa alphabet, named in some sources as Salifou or Gobiri, supposedly of ancient origin and in use north of Maradi, Niger.[39][40][41]

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A script that apparently originated with the writing/publishing group Raina Kama in the 1980s.

[42]

A script called "Tafi" proposed in the 1970s(?)

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History of Niger

History of Nigeria

Kanem Empire

Bornu Empire

Bayajidda

at Curlie

Hausa language

Omniglot

at Columbia University Libraries

Hausa Language Acquisitions

–World Loanword Database

Hausa Vocabulary List

at University of Vienna

Hausa Dictionary

–Intermediate and Advanced Lessons in Hausa Language and Culture

Hausar Yau Da Kullum:

Robinson, Charles Henry. (1899) Hausa-English Dictionary, in both Latin and Ajami, Vol 1.

https://archive.org/details/dictionaryhausa01englgoog/page/n2/mode/2up