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Hausa is also being used in various social media networks around the world. [citation needed] Hausa is considered one of the world's major languages, and it has widespread use in a number of countries of Africa. Hausa's rich poetry, prose, and musical literature is increasingly available in print and in audio and video recordings.
Hausa (/ ˈ h aʊ s ə /; [2] Harshen / Halshen Hausa listen ⓘ; 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 ...
Hausa may refer to: Hausa people, an ethnic group of West Africa; Hausa language, spoken in West Africa; Hausa Kingdoms, a historical collection of Hausa city-states; Hausa (horse) or Dongola horse, an African breed of riding horse
By far the most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland Eastern West Africa, particularly Niger and the northern half of Nigeria. Hausa, along with Mafa and Karai Karai , are the only three Chadic languages with more than 1 million speakers.
Hausa Day was introduced on August 26, 2015, by Nigerian journalist Abdulbaki Aliyu Jari. Jari's goal was to promote the Hausa language online and raise awareness of the challenges facing it. Jari suggested participants use Hausa on their social media, either by posting adages or coming up with new Hausa words for emerging ideas and technology.
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Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, [1] was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihads. It was situated between the Niger River and Lake Chad (modern day northern Nigeria ).
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