Language/Hausa
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Facts about Hausa
Hausa (هَرْشَن هَوْسَ) is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, mainly within the northern half of Nigeria and the southern half of Niger, and with significant minorities in Chad, Ghana, and Cameroon. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Ethnologues estimated that it was spoken as a first language by some 47 million people and as a second language by another 25 million, bringing the total number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 72 million. According to more recent estimations, Hausa would be spoken by 100–150 million people.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
hau
- Autonyms (how to write "Hausa" in Hausa):
Harshen Hausa / هَرْشَن هَوْسَ
- Other names for "Hausa":
Haoussa, Hawsa, Hausawa, Haussa, Abakwariga, Habe, Kado, Mgbakpa
- The Hausa language is spoken in:
Nigeria
Hausa Dictionaries
• Hausa-English dictionary by George Percy Bargery (1934)
• Hausar baka: Hausa-English Vocabulary (1998)
• Zaar-English-Hausa dictionary by Bernard Caron
• Boston university: Hausa-English basic vocabulary (+ audio)
• Defense language institute: basic vocabulary (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical (Defense Language Institute)
• Dictionary of the Hausa language by Charles Henry Robinson (1913)
• Vocabulary of the Haussa language by James Frederick Schön (1843)
• Essai de dictionnaire: Hausa-French dictionary, by Jean-Marie Le Roux (1886)
• Wörterbuch der Hausasprache: Hausa-German dictionary, by Adam Mischlich (1906) (Latin & Arabic alphabets)
• studies about the Hausa language, by Nina Pawlak
• Woman and man in Hausa language and culture, in Hausa and Chadic studies (2014)
• The concept of "truth" (gaskiya) in Hausa, between oral and written tradition, in African Studies (2016)
• The conceptual structure of "coming" and "going" in Hausa (2010)
• Hausa names for plants and trees [PDF]
• Hausa bird names [PDF]
• The provenance of Arabic loanwords in Hausa: a phonological and semantic study, by Mohamed El-Shazly, thesis (1987)
• Hausa proverbs by George Merrick (1905)