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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]
Hausa vowel chart, from Schuh & Yalwa (1999:91). The short vowels /i, u, a/ have a much wider range of allophones than what is presented on the chart. Hausa vowels occur in five different vowel qualities, all of which can be short or long, totaling 10 monophthongs. In addition, there are four diphthongs, giving a total number of 14 vocalic ...
Hausa Ajami script refers to the practice of using the alphabet derived from Arabic script for writing of Hausa language. [ 1 ] Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa , Fulfulde , and Wolof .
Own work, based on the vowel chart in Schuh, Russell G.; Yalwa, Lawan D. (1999) "Hausa" in Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, Category:New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 91 This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:
Hausa-language films (12 P) Hausa-language writers (20 P) L. Linguists of Hausa (4 P) ... Boko alphabet; E. Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing; H.
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With the adoption of letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in various national alphabets, letter case forms have been developed. This usually means capital ( uppercase ) forms were developed, but in the case of the glottal stop ʔ , both uppercase Ɂ and lowercase ɂ are used.
Hausa Sign Language is a language in its own right with its own lexicon and grammar. It can be analysed linguistically like other spoken and sign languages. The HSL lexicon does, however, include loanwords from spoken Hausa, the surrounding major spoken language.