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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Nigerian Pidgin (redirect from Nigerian Pidgin language)
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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