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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 literature is any work written in the Hausa language.It includes poetry, prose, songwriting, music, and drama. Hausa literature includes folk literature, much of which has been transcribed, and provides a means of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge, especially in regard to social, psychological, spiritual, or political roles.
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 .
This category was created for all names from the Hausa language. ... Pages in category "Hausa names" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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]
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe , Bahaushiya ; plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; [13] exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa. [14] [15] They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language ...
Wisdom is an Asset (Magana Jari Ce listen ⓘ, rendered more loosely by Rupert East as "[the] ability to tell stories is a valuable possession" [2]) is a trilogy of novels by Abubakar Imam of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, jointly regarded as one of the most significant literary works authored in the Hausa language.
This category contains articles with Hausa-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. This category should only be added with the {} family of templates, never explicitly.