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The Bible Society of Nigeria published a revised translation in 2014. Another translation called Sabon Rai Don Kowa was published in 2020. The same year, the first complete Bible in Hausa ajami script was published (Biblical texts had been published before, the first ones during the last years of the 19th century).
The 2020 Hausa Bible translation uses alif + sukun diacritic in medial positions as well. Some other manuscripts place a sukun over the waw 'ـُوْ' which is written optionally. [7] [6] [8] In Hausa, vowels [i] and [e] are distinguished, vowel [i] shown with a kasra diacritic ' ِ', while [e] is shown with a subscript dot diacritic, known as ...
Nigerian Fulfulde, also known as Hausa States Fulfulde, Fula, or Fulani is a variety of the Fula language spoken by the Fulani people in Nigeria, particularly in the Northern region of Nigeria. It belongs to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Phonologically, Nigerian Fulfulde exhibits a system of vowel harmony and a ...
Ajami (Arabic: عجمي , ʿajamī) or Ajamiyya (Arabic: عجمية , ʿajamiyyah), which comes from the Arabic root for 'foreign' or 'stranger', is an Arabic-derived script used for writing African languages, particularly Songhai, Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although many other languages are also written using the script, including Mooré, Pulaar, Wolof, and Yoruba.
Boko (or bookoo) is a Latin-script alphabet used to write the Hausa language. The first boko alphabet was devised by Europeans in the early 19th century, [1] and developed in the early 20th century by the British and French colonial authorities. It was made the official Hausa alphabet in 1930. [2]
Translations of Genesis, Exodus, the Gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles into the Hausa Language (1857-1861) Grammar of the Haussa Language (1862) Dictionary of the Hausa Language (1876) Vocabulary of the Mende language (1884) [7] Magana Hausa: Hausa Stories and Fables (1885) [8] His papers are archived at the University of Birmingham. [1] [9]
Binding and loosing is originally a Jewish Mishnaic phrase also mentioned in the New Testament, as well as in the Targum. In usage, to bind and to loose simply means to forbid by an indisputable authority and to permit by an indisputable authority. [1] One example of this is Isaiah 58:5–6 which relates proper fasting to loosing the chains of ...
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 ...