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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.
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).
A collection of over 100 Hausa proverbs in both Hausa and English translation appears in Volume 2 of R. S. Rattray's Hausa Folklore, Customs, Proverbs, etc. by Malam Shaihu. [55] The Hausa text is printed both in Arabic script as provided by Malam Shaihu, a Kano-born Hausa teacher, [56] and in Roman transliteration provided by Rattray. Here are ...
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 ...
[note 1] It is known to have occurred in Hebrew by the 2nd century CE. [43] After a certain point this alternation became contrastive in word-medial and final position (though bearing low functional load ), but in word-initial position they remained allophonic. [ 44 ]
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.As of November 2024 the whole Bible has been translated into 756 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,726 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,274 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance.
The Digital Bible Library lists over 240 different contributors. [1] According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible ...
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