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    Hausa (/ˈhaʊsə/; Harshen/Halshen Hausa listen; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language spoken primarily by the Hausa people in the northern parts...
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    They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family. The Hausa are a culturally...
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    BBC Hausa is the Hausa-language service of the BBC World Service meant primarily for Hausa-speaking communities in Nigeria, Ghana, Niger and the rest of...
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    Hausa-language cinema, known informally as Kannywood, is the Hausa-language film industry of northern Nigeria. It is based in Kano. Kannywood is the sobriquet...
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  • Hausa Ajami script refers to the practice of using an alphabet derived from the Arabic script for writing the Hausa language. Ajami is a name commonly...
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  • of Hausa or Fula or both as their first language. The term Hausa-Fulani is also used mostly as a joint term to refer to both the monoethnic Hausa and...
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    Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihads. It was situated between the Niger...
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  • Look up Hausa or hausa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hausa may refer to: Hausa people, an ethnic group of West Africa Hausa language, spoken in West...
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    people. The most commonly spoken native languages are Hausa (over 63 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba (over 47 million...
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    and North Africa; the Chadic Hausa language, with over 58 million speakers in West Africa; the Cushitic Oromo language, with 45 million native speakers;...
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  • Hausa Sign Language (HSL; Hausa: Maganar hannu or Harshen bebaye na ƙasar Hausa) is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in northern Nigeria...
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    originally from Manding (esp. Mandinka, but also Malinke and Bamana) and Hausa, respectively; Peul in French, also occasionally found in literature in...
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  • An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. The tag structure has been standardized by...
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    influence is also seen in some languages in West Africa. F. W. H. Migeod pointed to strong resemblances between Berber and Hausa in such words and phrases...
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  • Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (category Articles with Hausa-language sources (ha))
    Peace and Light. (in English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam, Hausa, Yoruba, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Malay, Thai, Korean, Chinese, Polish, Russian...
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    Hausa literature is any work written in the Hausa language. It includes poetry, prose, songwriting, music, and drama. Hausa literature includes folk literature...
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    Nigeria women's national football team (category Articles containing Hausa-language text)
    FIFA. 2019 edition of the football tournament was played by the U-20 team. Hausa: Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta mata ta Najeriya, Igbo: Ndị otu egwuregwu bọọlụ...
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    Momee Gombe (category Hausa-language mass media)
    singer and actor Garzali Miko and other young Hausa singers in Northern Nigeria. Momme Gombe married popular Hausa singer Adam Fasaha in 2021, but the marriage...
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    of Nigeria's population are Hausa. They are predominantly Muslim, but some are Christians. They speak the Hausa language, although different tribes speak...
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  • Hawsawi (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    original name of the tribe in the Hausa language. The Hausa language is the second most-spoken Afro-Asiatic language in the world after Arabic and the...
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  • Latifa al-Droubi (category CS1 Hausa-language sources (ha))
    Latifa al-Droubi - the wife of the Syrian interim president?]. BBC News Hausa (in Hausa). 14 March 2025. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved...
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    Kano State (category Articles containing Hausa-language text)
    Kano (Hausa: Jihar Kano جِهَرْ كَنُوَ) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the northern region of the country. Created in 1967 out of the former...
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  • term "my boss or my mentor", has been adopted from the Yoruba word oga. Hausa ba at the end of an intonated sentence or question: you no wan come, ba...
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  • correspondences: 'six': Egyptian srs, Proto-Semitic *šidṯ-, Berber sdˁis, Hausa (Chadic) šidda 'seven': Egyptian sfḫ, Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-. A number of...
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  • Klingenheben's law (category Articles containing Hausa-language text)
    (softening) of certain syllable-final consonants in earlier forms of the Hausa language. The four sound changes affect the velar stops, coronal stops, labial...
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    BBC World Service (category CS1 Hausa-language sources (ha))
    Afrique Radio" (in French). BBC. Retrieved 29 December 2024. "BBC Hausa Rediyo" (in Hausa). BBC. Retrieved 29 December 2024. "BBC Igbo and Yoruba launched...
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    languages, with Hausa being the official and most spoken language. Depending on how they are counted, Niger has between 8 and 20 indigenous languages...
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    Ahmed al-Sharaa (category CS1 Hausa-language sources (ha))
    Latifa al-Droubi - the wife of the Syrian interim president?]. BBC News Hausa (in Hausa). 14 March 2025. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved...
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    Roselle (plant) (category Articles containing Hausa-language text)
    known as ìsápá among the Yoruba in southwest Nigeria and yakuwa by the Hausa people of northern Nigeria who also call the seeds gurguzu and the capsule...
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  • Aminu Saira (category Hausa-language mass media)
    Kannywood Awards (Jurors' Choice). In 2020, Saira launched the first Hausa language home video series, titled Labarina. Saira was born in Gwammaja, Kano...
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