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• A Hausa-English dictionary by George Percy Bargery (1934) online search in the Bargery's dictionary
• Hausa dialect vocabulary , based on the Bargery's Hausa-English dictionary , by Shuji Matsushita (1993)
• Hausar baka : Hausa-English Vocabulary (1998)
• Zaar-English-Hausa dictionary by Bernard Caron
• Boston university : Hausa-English basic vocabulary (+ audio)
• Defense language institute : basic vocabulary (+ audio) - civil affairs - medical ( Defense Language Institute )
• Dictionary of the Hausa language by Charles Henry Robinson (1913)
• English-Hausa
• Vocabulary of the Haussa language by James Frederick Schön (1843)
• Essai de dictionnaire : Hausa-French dictionary, by Jean-Marie Le Roux (1886)
• Wörterbuch der Hausasprache : Hausa-German dictionary, by Adam Mischlich (1906) (Latin & Arabic scripts)
• studies about the Hausa language, by Nina Pawlak
• Woman and man in Hausa language and culture , in Hausa and Chadic studies (2014)
• The concept of "truth" ( gaskiya ) in Hausa, between oral and written tradition , in African Studies (2016)
• The conceptual structure of "coming" and "going" in Hausa (2010)
• Hausa names for plants and trees by Roger Blench (2007)
• Hausa names of some common birds (2003)
• The etymology of Hausa boko by Paul Newman (2013)
• The provenance of Arabic loanwords in Hausa : a phonological and semantic study , by Mohamed El-Shazly, thesis (1987)
• French loans in Hausa by Sergio Baldi, in Hausa and Chadic Studies (2014)
• Hausa proverbs by George Merrick (1905)
→ Hausa keyboard to type a text with the special characters of the Boko script
• Teach yourself Hausa : Hausa course
• Hausa basic course , Foreign service institute (1963) (+ audio)
• Hausa online Lehrbuch : Hausa course, by Franz Stoiber (2002)
• Hausa by Al-Amin Abu-Manga, in Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics (2007)
• Le haoussa by Bernard Caron, in Dictionnaire des langues (2011)
• Hausa in the twentieth century : an overview , by John Edward Philips, in Sudanic Africa (2004)
• linguistic studies about Hausa, by Bernard Caron
• Hausa, grammatical sketch (2011)
• The Hausa lexicographic tradition by Roxanna Ma Newman & Paul Newman, in Lexikos (2001)
• An introduction to the use of aspect in Hausa narrative by Donald Buquest (1992)
• Comparative study of morphological processes in English and Hausa languages by Zubairu Bitrus Samaila (2015)
• Hausa verbal compounds by Anthony McIntyre, thesis (2006)
• Introductory Hausa & Hausa-English vocabulary, by Charles & Marguerite Kraft (1973)
• Grammar of the Hausa language by Frederick Migeod (1914)
• Hausa Grammar with exercises, readings and vocabularies , by Charles Robinson & John Alder Burdon (1905)
• Hausa notes : grammar & vocabulary, by Walter Miller (1922)
• Grammar of the Hausa language by James Frederick Schön (1862)
• Manuel de langue haoussa : grammar, readings and Hausa-French vocabulary, by Maurice Delafosse (1901)
• Manuel pratique de langue haoussa : Hausa grammar, by Adolf Adirr (1895)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache : Handbook of the Hausa language, by Adam Mischlich (1911)
• books about the Hausa language: Google books | Internet archive | Academia | Wikipedia
• Hausa online : resources about the Hausa language (blog)
• BBC - VOA - RFI - DW : news in Hausa
• Specimens of Hausa literature by Charles Henry Robinson (1896)
• Hausa reading book by Lionel Charlton (1908)
• Hausa folk-tales , the Hausa text of the stories in Hausa superstitions and customs , by Arthur Tremearne (1914)
• Hausa superstitions and customs , an introduction to the folk-lore and the folk , by Arthur Tremearne (1913)
• Hausa folk-lore, customs, proverbs … collected and transliterated with English translation and notes, by Robert Sutherland Rattray (1913): I & II
• Magana Hausa , Hausa stories and fables , collected by James Frederick Schön (1906)
• Hausa stories and riddles , with notes on the language & Hausa dictionary, by Hermann Harris (1908)
• Hausa popular literature and video film by Graham Furniss (2003)
• La-yia yekpe nanisia, wotenga Mende-bela ti Kenye-lei hu : The Gospels (1872)
• The Epistles and Revelations in Hausa (1879)
• Visionneuse : translation of the Bible into Hausa
• Tanzil : translation of the Quran into Hausa by Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
Su dai ƴan-adam, ana haifuwarsu ne duka ƴantattu, kuma kowannensu na da mutunci da hakkoki daidai da na kowa. Suna da hankali da tunani, saboda haka duk abin da za su aikata wa juna, ya kamata su yi shi a cikin ƴan-uwanci.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights : translation into Hausa (+ audio)
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33 Accesses Over 70 million people speak Hausa as their first language, and several millions more as their second. As the lingua franca of a wide west African trading and religious diaspora since the nineteenth century, Hausa can be heard spoken not only in northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and northern Benin, but also in parts of cities throughout west Africa as well as by a million farmers and their families in the Sudan. It has been used in written work – first in Arabic script and later in roman script – since the nineteenth century, when the Sokoto Caliphate first unified the core areas of Hausaland under a new reformist Islamic government. The subsequent economic boom after ca. 1860 drew many people to work in Hausa areas and to become “Hausa,” while at the same time causing Hausa-speaking people to travel and settle well beyond old Hausaland. The scale and success of the Hausa economy attracted the interest of European traders, an interest that led to colonization by... This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.  Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout Purchases are for personal use only Institutional subscriptions BibliographyBesmer, F.E. 1983. Horses, musicians and gods: The Hausa cult of possession-trance . South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey. Google Scholar Callaway, B.J. 1987. Muslim Hausa women in Nigeria: Tradition and change . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Greenberg, J.H. 1946. The influence of Islam on a Sudanese religion . Seattle: University of Washington Press. Kane, Ousmane. 1993. Les Mouvements islamiques et le champ politique au nord du Nigeria: le cas du mouvement izala à Kano. In Thèse du doctorat en science politique . Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. Last, M. 1988. Charisma and medicine in Northern Nigeria. In Charisma and brotherhood in African Islam , ed. Donal B. Cruise O’Brien and Christian Coulon, 183–204. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ———, Ed. 1991. Youth and health in Kano today, Kano Studies, special issue. Last, M. 2014. From dissent to dissidence: The genesis and development of reformist Islamic groups in northern Nigeria. In Sects & social disorder , ed. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 18–53. Woodbridge: James Currey. Loimeier, R. 1993. Islamische Erneuerung und politischer Wandel in Nordnigeria. Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den Sufi-Bruderschaften und ihren Gegnern seit den 50er Jahren . Hamburg. Paden, J.N. 1973. Religion and political culture in Kano . Berkeley: University of California Press. Wall, L.L. 1988. Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture . Durham: Duke University Press. Download references Author informationAuthors and affiliations. Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK Murray Last You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Corresponding authorCorrespondence to Murray Last . Editor informationEditors and affiliations. The Program in Literature, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA V. Y. Mudimbe Department of French, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Kasereka Kavwahirehi Rights and permissionsReprints and permissions Copyright information© 2021 Springer Nature B.V. About this entryCite this entry. Last, M. (2021). Hausa. In: Mudimbe, V.Y., Kavwahirehi, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_168 Download citationDOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_168 Published : 29 January 2022 Publisher Name : Springer, Dordrecht Print ISBN : 978-94-024-2066-1 Online ISBN : 978-94-024-2068-5 eBook Packages : Religion and Philosophy Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Module Humanities Share this entryAnyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative
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Hausa by Benedetta Rossi LAST REVIEWED: 27 February 2019 LAST MODIFIED: 27 February 2019 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0206The term “Hausa” refers to a language spoken by over thirty million first-language speakers living mainly in the region now comprising northern Nigeria and southern Niger, with large Hausa-speaking enclaves in northern Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, and the Sudan. This term is also commonly used to refer to the society that speaks this language. However, historically Hausa society has been so internally diverse that it would be preferable to speak of “Hausa-speaking societ ies ”: “It is almost impossible to say exactly what a Hausa is now, for he is admittedly a mixture of mixtures” ( Tremearne 1911 ) Until the early-20th-century researchers of Hausaphone societies tended to distinguish between Muslim and “pagan” Hausa, with the latter comprising groups collectively labeled Maguzawa (northern Nigeria) and Azna, Arna, or Anna (southern Niger). Throughout the 20th century a regional process of Islamization resulted in the marginalization of non-Muslim and syncretic religious practices. Only a small minority of Hausa converted to Christianity. Political anthropologists distinguished between, on one hand, dynastic Hausa, politically centralized groups settled in the main Hausa cities, and on the other hand, lineage-based Hausa: farming communities living in the countryside. In the early 21st century these classifications are slowly becoming obsolete as all Hausa speakers are integrated in national political structures, and young people with rural origins gravitate toward large urban centers within and outside Africa in search of jobs and resources. While the literature on Hausa history, societies, and cultures in northern Nigeria is voluminous and primarily English, studies of Hausaphone southern Niger are fewer and mainly in French. Works included in this section are milestones in the debate on how a Hausa identity, with its main characteristics as we know them in the 21st century, took shape in this region. Fuglestad 1978 exemplifies a revisionist critique of the interpretation of Islamization through trade foregrounded in two influential earlier studies by Abdullahi Smith and John Hunwick (see Hunwick 1985 cited under History ). Fuglestad’s criticism emphasized the internal diversity of Hausa political institutions, and particularly the polarization between rural lineage-based society and the world of the fortified politically centralized city-states ( birni, birane ). Nicolas 1975 provides an anthropological analysis of the characteristics of these two poles within Hausa culture and societies. Lange 2004 is a collection of papers published by the author from the 1970s to the 1990s based on regional primary sources that highlight the interconnections between Hausa societies and their neighbors. Adamu 1978 considers the consequences of the transformations of Hausa society for the broader regional context. Studies on the economic history of Hausa trade were spearheaded by Paul Lovejoy’s doctoral research, published in 1980, and his seminal articles that had already appeared in the 1970s (see Lovejoy 1973 , Lovejoy 1974 , and Lovejoy 1978 all cited under Economic History ). Sutton 1979 brought new momentum to research on the Hausaization process by integrating evidence from archaeology and linguistics, which he revisited in his contribution to the volume co-edited by Haour and Rossi 2010 . Haour and Rossi’s multidisciplinary study was an attempt to re-ignite earlier debates that have not reached closure. Adamu, Mahdi. The Hausa Factor in West African History . Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1978. An original analysis of Hausa history that sees the spread of Hausa-speaking societies as a fundamental determinant of economic, cultural, and religious dynamics in West African history. Fuglestad, Finn. “A Reconsideration of Hausa History Before the Jihad.” Journal of African History 19 (1978): 319–339. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700016194 An early attempt at interpreting the interconnection between urban Muslim Hausa societies and rural “pagan” lineage-based groups that introduced the theory of “contrapuntal paramountcy.” Haour, Anne, and Benedetta Rossi, eds. Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010. Co-edited by an archaeologist and a historical anthropologist, this interdisciplinary volume revisits and advances fundamental debates on Hausa history and identity. Lange, Dierk. Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa: Africa-Centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives . Dettelbach, Germany: Röll, 2004. While Lange’s hypotheses about the alleged Canaanite origins of some West African societies, including Hausa, are controversial, his studies provide a thorough analysis of Kanuri (Kanem-Borno), Hausa, Yoruba, and Middle-Niger river societies based on a broad range of written and oral sources. Lovejoy, Paul. Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade, 1700–1900 . Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1980. A pioneering economic history of Hausa Kola trade that illustrates the place of Hausa traders (and traders who traveled in Hausaland) in the main ethnically defined axes of long-distance trade in West Africa. Nicolas, Guy. Dynamique sociale et appréhension du monde au sein d’une société hausa . Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Travaux et mémoires de l’institut d’ethnologie 68. Paris: Institut d’ethnologie, 1975. A comprehensive anthropological study of Hausa societies and institutions. Based on extensive anthropological research carried out in the 1960s in Francophone Hausaland by Nicolas, it illustrates the relationship between “dynastic” and lineage-based “Anna” Hausa communities in the Maradi region. Emphasizes the connections between cosmology and social organization. Sutton, John. “Towards a Less Orthodox History of Hausaland.” Journal of African History 20 (1979): 179–201. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700017011 A revisionist approach to the question of the “origins” of Hausa society that prioritizes historical linguistics in the reconstruction of the early migrations and assimilative processes that shaped Hausa speaking societies as we know them in the 21st century. back to top Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on this page. Please subscribe or login . Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here .
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This bibliography on the Hausa language --to be frequently updated-- represents highlights from the last fifty years of library acquisitions at Columbia University. In addition to full-length novels, plays, poetry, and short stories, the Hausa literature collection includes a selection of Adabin Kasuwar Kano or "Kano market literature". These inexpensively-printed, short works of fiction appeared during the mid- to late 1990s and are mostly all love stories or soyayya . A few titles are non-fiction: pamphlets on better living, a good marriage, or Islamic values. The guide also includes many biographies, histories, cultural and linguistic studies, religious works, and other non-fiction published in Hausa. Titles in Arabic, English, French, and German listed here deal primarily with aspects of Hausa language, literature, biography, history, religion, the arts, film, music, culture, and society. Part of: African Studies at Columbia Reference -- Dictionaries & Glossaries
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 Hausaland , sometimes referred to as the Hausa Kingdoms, was a group of small independent city -states in northern central Africa between the Niger River and Lake Chad which flourished from the 15th to 18th century CE. The origins of the Hausa are not known, but one hypothesis suggests they were a group of indigenous peoples joined by a common language - Hausa - while another theory explains their presence as a consequence of a migration of peoples from the southern Sahara Desert. The cities prospered thanks to local and interregional trade in such commodities as salt, precious metals, leather goods, and slaves. Islam was adopted by many of the rulers and elite of the city-states in the 14th and 15th century CE but was also one of the reasons for their loss of independence when the Muslim Fulani leader Usman dan Fodio (r. 1803-1815 CE) launched a holy war and conquered the region in the early 19th century CE. Geography & OriginsThe name Hausaland derives from the Hausa term Kasar hausa , meaning the 'country of the Hausa language', although the area also included other peoples such as the Tuareg, Fulbe, and Zabarma. The term 'Hausa' was in use only from the 16th century CE as the people called themselves according to which specific city-state or kingdom they belonged to. Hausaland was located in the Sahel region between the Niger River and Lake Chad in north-central Africa in what is today northern Nigeria. The Sahel is the semi-arid strip of land running across Africa between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah grassland to the south. Hausland, specifically, stretched from the Air mountains (north) to the Jos plateau (south) and from Borno (east) to the Niger Valley (west). This region saw the development of towns by the Hausa-speaking people from 1000 to 1300 CE. The exact origins of the Hausa cities are not known, but theories include a migration of peoples from the southern Sahara who, abandoning their own lands following the increased desiccation of that area, established new settlements in what would become known as Hausaland. An alternative theory suggests that the Hausa people originally lived on the western shore of Lake Chad and when the lake shrank (as a consequence of the same climatic changes that affected the Sahara) they occupied this new and fertile land and then eventually spread to the immediate north and west. There is as yet, unfortunately, no archaeological evidence to support either of these two theories. As a consequence, there is a third hypothesis, which is that the Hausa had not migrated from anywhere but were indigenous to the region. Support for this theory lies in the fact that there is no tradition of migration in Hausa oral history.  There is, though, a foundation legend, known as the Bayajida or Daura legend, although this probably dates to the 16th century CE and reflects the increased influence of Islam in the region at that time. According to this tradition, Bayajida, a prince from Baghdad, arrived at the court of the ruler of the Kingdom of Kanem (or the Bornu Empire as it became by the 16th century CE). Receiving an unfavourable reception, Bayajida headed eastwards until he came upon the city of Daura. There, the queen and her kingdom were being terrorized by a great snake. Bayajida stepped in and killed the troublesome serpent and promptly married the queen. Together they had a son called Bawogari who then went on to have six sons of his own, each of which became the king of a Hausa city-state. Meanwhile, Bayajida had another son, this time with one of his concubines. This illegitimate son, called Karbogari, had seven sons, and these went on to rule seven other Hausa cities. This story neatly explains how the various cities were established but not, of course, just where Daura and its queen came from. Key Cities & GovernmentWherever they had sprung from, by the early 15th century CE many small Hausa chiefdoms had come together to create several walled cities which controlled their respective surrounding countryside. Traditionally, there were seven city-states (the hausa bakwai ), but there were, in fact, many more. The most important were (the traditional seven are marked with an asterisk):
Each city had its own king or ruler, the sarkin kasa , who was advised by a chief councillor or vizier, the galadima , and a small council of elders - typically consisting of nine members who also determined the next ruler in line. Various officials were appointed by the king to, for example, collect taxes and customs duties, lead the city's cavalry units or infantry, maintain security on roadways, and look after certain crops. The city ruled over various smaller chiefdoms or villages in its immediate vicinity, each ruled by a chief or sarkin gari . The third tier of this political pyramid was the family clan or gida , many of which made up an individual village. Rural Hausa populations were farmers who worked the land which belonged to the community as a whole. Over time, as the city-states became more centralised, this system was corrupted by the kings giving out parcels of land as rewards to certain individuals. Hausa agriculture also became heavily reliant on slaves, too. Meanwhile, the society within the main city of each kingdom was cosmopolitan, although dominated by the Hausa. There were slaves, craftworkers, merchants, religious officials, scholars, eunuchs and aristocrats ( masu sarauta ) related to or favoured by the king. The Hausa states traded gold , ivory, salt, iron, tin, weapons, horses, dyed cotton cloth, kola nuts, glassware, metalware, ostrich feathers, and hides. There was trade with the coastal region of West Africa, Oyo in the Bight of Benin, and the Songhai Empire (c. 1460 -1591 CE) to the east. Slaves were an important source of revenue for all the cities but Zaria, in particular, specialised in acquiring slaves via raids to the south.  Cities specialised in the manufacture or trade of certain goods, for example, dyes - especially indigo - at Katsina and Daura or silver jewellery at Kebbi and Zamfara. Hausaland became famous (and still is today) for its finely worked leather goods such as water bags, saddles, harnesses, and sacks to transport goods for the region's trade caravans. Various crafts were organised into guilds which ensured standards were maintained and prices were kept fair. Hausa agriculture, boosted by such techniques as crop rotation and the use of fertilizers, produced crops which included millet, sorghum, rice, maize, peanuts, beans, henna, tobacco, and onions. In addition, fishing and hunting were carried out and goats raised (important for ritual sacrifices) and donkeys bred (the principal form of transport). Each city had its own markets where both men and women sold their wares, and many cities also had international trade markets where merchants sold in bulk. Goods were exchanged in kind although salt, cloth, and slaves were often used as a standardised form of commodity-currency. ArchitectureTraditional Hausa houses are made from dried mud bricks which are pear-shaped and laid in rows using mortar and with the pointed end facing upwards. The walls are then faced with plaster and given either painted or incised decoration. Houses were further decorated with sculpted additions, again using mud, creating three-dimensional geometric designs such as interlaced patterns and spirals. A secure roofing is achieved by creating a mud vault which is strengthened by a frame of split palms and palm fronds, an architectural feature particular to Hausaland. Each house is enclosed in its own high wall which may have additional buildings set into it. The chief cities were protected by massive fortification walls - an indication of the frequent siege warfare that went on in Hausaland throughout its history. Conversion to IslamUnlike much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the area occupied by Hausaland was largely untouched by Islam until the 14th century CE. Finally, though, a form of Islam was adopted and adapted following contact with Muslim merchants, missionaries, and scholars, who came from the east, the Niger River bend area. Islam was typically blended with traditional animist rituals and so took on its own distinct character in the region. Not having any commercial incentive to gain favour with foreign merchants like the Hausa rulers and elite, rural populations proved as difficult as in other parts of Africa to fully convert to the new religion , despite (or perhaps because of) sometimes brutal methods such as the destruction of shrines and the burning of ancient sacred groves. Despite this resistance from some chiefs and much of the rural populace, Islam did eventually take a strong hold in the region. Mosques were built in the cities and one of the oldest surviving remnants of these early structures is the dried mud Gobarau minaret of the mosque at Katsina, which dates to the early 15th century CE. Regional Rivalries & DeclineRelations with the neighbouring Songhai Empire were not always peaceful, as when - at least according to the historian Leo Africanus (c. 1494 - c. 1554 CE) - the Songhai king Askia Muhammad (r. 1494-1528 CE), managed to subdue the cities of Katsina, Kano, and Gobir, making them, albeit briefly, tributary states. It may be that this invasion was carried out by other smaller neighbouring states as the Songhai records and those from Timbuktu for the period are remarkably silent on the matter. Meanwhile, Hausa states made frequent raids to the south in the Benue Valley against various peoples including the Bauchi, Gongola, Jukun, and Yawuri. The Fulani, nomadic cattle-herders from Senegal who migrated across Africa to Lake Chad in the mid-16th century CE, settled in Hausaland and brought with them another surge in interest in the Islamic religion and learning. In the last quarter of the 18th century CE, the Fulani abandoned their peaceful evangelism and launched a religious war in the region. In this, the Fulani were aided by the sometimes long-standing rivalries between Hausa cities, the internal disputes between the elites in several city-states, and a generally disaffected populace who had grown ever poorer while the Hausa trading aristocracy had grown richer. Thus, from 1804 CE, the Fulani leader Usman dan Fodio conquered all of the Hausa city-states, converting them to Islam. Usman dan Fodio, who was himself from the Hausa city-state of Gobir, then went on to expand his empire and establish his capital at Sokoto in 1817 CE which gave its name to the new state. Subscribe to topic Related Content Books Cite This Work License Bibliography
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Journal articles on the topic "Hausa language – Foreign words and phrases":Zailini, Abdulkadir Abu Bakar. "Coinage and Neologism in Hausa Political Programs: A Sociolinguistics Perspective." Register Journal 12, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 294–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/rgt.v12i2.294-311. Pawlak, Nina. "Hausa phraseologisms as a structural property of language and cultural value." Language in Africa 2, no. 1 (May 20, 2021): 91–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-1-91-120. Kamandulytė-Merfeldien, Laura. "Foreign words in spoken Lithuanian language." Lietuvių kalba , no. 12 (December 15, 2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2018.22518. Maikanti, Sale, Yap Ngee Thai, Jurgen Martin Burkhardt, Yong Mei Fung, Salina Binti Husain, and Olúwadọrọ̀ Jacob Oludare. "Mispronunciation and Substitution of Mid-high Front and Back Hausa Vowels by Yorùbá Native Speakers." REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language 3, no. 1 (April 19, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/reila.v3i1.6107. Liang, Linxin, and Mingwu Xu. "An exploratory study of Chinese words and phrases." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 65, no. 1 (April 4, 2019): 96–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.00080.lia. Sujarwo, Sujarwo. "Students’ Perceptions of Using Machine Translation Tools In the EFL Classroom." Al-Lisan 6, no. 2 (September 6, 2020): 230–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.30603/al.v6i2.1333. Abdujabbarova, Zamira. "Teaching English as Foreign Language by Using Different Types of Texts: the Goals." JET ADI BUANA 5, no. 01 (April 30, 2020): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36456/jet.v5.n01.2020.2350. Ningtyas, Siska Aditya, Eka Yuli Astuti, and Widodo M.Pd. "Pemertahanan Bahasa Jawa Dialek Tegal dalam Kumpulan Cerkak Tegalan Warung Poci Karya Dr. Maufur." Sutasoma : Jurnal Sastra Jawa 7, no. 2 (January 21, 2020): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/sutasoma.v7i2.29085. Ellis, Nick C., and Susan G. Sinclair. "Working Memory in the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Syntax: Putting Language in Good Order." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 49, no. 1 (February 1996): 234–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713755604. Zorčič, Sabina. "Words of foreign origin in political discourse." Linguistica 52, no. 1 (December 31, 2012): 363–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.52.1.363-380. Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hausa language – Foreign words and phrases":Yeung, Hong-ting, and 楊康婷. "A study of loan words in Chinese language in Hong Kong =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30433083. Nangambi, Noria Ntshengedzeni. "Tshenguluso ya ndeme ya nyaluwo ya luambo lwa Tshivenda yo tutuwedzwayo nga mupindulelo wa maipfi." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2378. Kuya, Aimi. "Diffusion of western loanwords in contemporary Japanese : a sociolinguistic approach to lexical variation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:99db8ff0-9ba9-4859-8f4a-2890544021de. Chan, Ka-yin, and 陳嘉賢. "Loan Words in advertisements in Japanese women's magazines." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953785. Frischkorn, Bradford Michael. "Integration of the American English lexicon: A study of borrowing in contemporary spoken Japanese." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1107. Heung, Lok-yi, and 香樂怡. "Loan word compression in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007573. Rung-ruang, Apichai. "English loanwords in Thai and optimality theory." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1389690. Horikawa, Naoko. "English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/913. Samperi-Mangan, Jacqueline. "Languages in contact : error analysis of Italian childrens' compositions in a multilingual context." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60594. Graham, Florence. "Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2e237b05-c803-4278-a93a-ccc519ea4eac. Books on the topic "Hausa language – Foreign words and phrases":Baldi, Sergio. A first ethnolinguistic comparison of Arabic loanwords common to Hausa and Swahili . Napoli: Istituto universitario orientale, 1988. Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī al-Sayyid. Muʻjam al-alfāẓ al-ʻArabīyah fī lughat al-Hawsā . 8th ed. [al-Riyāḍ]: al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah, Wizārat al-Taʻlīm al-ʻĀlī, Jāmiʻat al-Imām Muḥammad ibn Saʻūd al-Islāmīyah, ʻImādat al-Baḥth al-ʻIlmī, 2005. Delahunty, Andrew. Oxford dictionary of foreign words and phrases . New York, NY: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2010. Room, Adrian. Cassell's foreign words and phrases . London: Cassell, 2000. Muirithe, Diarmaid Ó. Irish words & phrases . Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2002. Flavell, L. The chronology of words & phrases . London: Kyle Cathie, 2000. Tuleja, Tad. A dictionary of foreign words and phrases . London: Robert Hale, 2009. Phamō̜nbut, ʻĀphā. Foreign words are pronounced the same as Thai words: The etymological relationships of Thai and foreign words . Bangkok: Distributed by D.K. Today Co., 1988. Varchaver, Mary. The browser's dictionary of foreign words and phrases . New York: Wiley, 2001. Park, Whaja. Western loan-words in Japanese . Stockholm: Stockholm University, Dept. of Oriental Languages, 1987. Book chapters on the topic "Hausa language – Foreign words and phrases":"Index of Foreign Words and Phrases." In Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah , 423–47. BRILL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004269651_013. Watson, Charles S., and James D. Miller. "Computer-Based Perceptual Training as a Major Component of Adult Instruction in a Foreign Language." In Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning , 230–44. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2821-2.ch013. Underwood, Joshua. "Speaking to machines: motivating speaking through oral interaction with intelligent assistants." In Innovative language pedagogy report , 127–32. Research-publishing.net, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.50.1247. Majewski, Marcin, Artur Sporniak, Teresa Szostek, and Michał Czajkowski. "Cenzura w Biblii." In Beyond Language , 166–81. Æ Academic, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.52769/bl1.0014.mmaj-aspo-tszo-mcza. Tanaka-Ellis, Nobue, and Sachiyo Sekiguchi. "Not a language course (!): teaching global leadership skills through a foreign language in a flipped, blended, and ubiquitous learning environment." In CALL and complexity – short papers from EUROCALL 2019 , 350–55. Research-publishing.net, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.1035. Kriukova, Yelizaveta, and Svitlana Buha. "USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN DISTANCE LEARNING." In Priority areas for development of scientific research: domestic and foreign experience . Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-049-0-21. Countries and Their CulturesHausa - bibliography. Adamu, Mahdi (1978). The Hausa Factor in West African History. London: Oxford University Press. Coles, Catherine, and Beverly Mack, eds. (1991). Women in Twentieth Century Hausa Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Hill, Polly (1972). Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Paden, John (1974). Religion and Political Culture in Kano. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Smith, Mary E (1981). Baba of Karo. New Haven: Yale University Press. Originally published in 1954. Smith, M. G. (1965). "The Hausa of Northern Nigeria." In Peoples of Africa, edited by James L. Gibbs, Jr., 119-155. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:. « Gusii Hazara » |
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An outstanding bibliography written in the Hausa language by one of the most famous local Hausa folklorists. Hausa a rubuce provides an exhaustive listing, although without annotation, of available Hausa newspapers, pamphlets, books, and other literary materials gathered from all over northern Nigeria up to the time of publication. Newman, Paul.
"The Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (OBCHL), henceforth the 'biblio', is an updated, expanded, and corrected edition of the bibliography published some fifteen years ago by Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Newman 1996). The ensuing years have witnessed an outpouring of new publications on Chadic and Hausa, written by scholars ...
An outstanding bibliography written in the Hausa language by one of the most famous local Hausa folklorists. Hausa a rubuce provides an exhaustive listing, although without annotation, of available Hausa newspapers, pamphlets, books, and other literary materials ... Again, production problems mean that descriptions of the contents of the ...
Hausa language. → Hausa keyboard to type a text with the special characters of the Boko script. • Teach yourself Hausa: Hausa course. • Hausa basic course, Foreign service institute (1963) (+ audio) • Hausa online Lehrbuch: Hausa course, by Franz Stoiber (2002) • Hausa by Al-Amin Abu-Manga, in Encyclopedia of Arabic language and ...
ensuing years have witnessed an outpouring of new publications on Chadic and Hausa, written by scholars from around the globe, thereby creating the need for new and up-dated bibliographies. The first two editions, entitled Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics, were published in 2012 (Bayreuth) and 2013 (Indiana). The third and
HausaDictionary.com is an online bilingual dictionary that aims to offer the most useful and accurate Hausa to English or English to Hausa translations and definitions. This site contains a wide range of Hausa and English language materials and resources to help you learn Hausa or English. Pick up some basic terms and phrases here, expand your ...
Introduction. With an estimated population of up to 50 million, Hausa make up one of the largest people groups practicing Islam. Despite settlement of today's Hausaland in the central Sudan by the early 1000s CE, the use of "Hausa" (often spelled Haoussa in French, with Hawsa now official in Niger) for its inhabitants is absent from early records; the word first appears as a geographic ...
Download reference work entry PDF. Over 70 million people speak Hausa as their first language, and several millions more as their second. As the lingua franca of a wide west African trading and religious diaspora since the nineteenth century, Hausa can be heard spoken not only in northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and northern ...
Hausa Language Main language of Niger and the northern parts of Nigeria, commonly spoken in other parts of West Africa where Hausa people have traveled for trade. Source: Encyclopedia of Africa Author(s): Henry Louis GatesHenry Louis Gates, Jr., Kwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony Appiah. Hausa serves as a localized lingua franca—enabling peoples of different languages to communicate with one ...
The term "Hausa" refers to a language spoken by over thirty million first-language speakers living mainly in the region now comprising northern Nigeria and southern Niger, with large Hausa-speaking enclaves in northern Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, and the Sudan. This term is also commonly used to refer to the society that speaks this language.
Hausa (/ ˈ h aʊ s ə /; 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 also exist in Sudan.. Hausa is a member of the ...
Hausa Printed Resources. The lists below include only works which would be readily accessible in libraries and/or through commercial sources. There are many technical linguistic papers on Hausa in African language and linguistics journals, dozens of MA and PhD dissertations, and many books not listed here which are less accessible or viewed as less useful as primary resources than those listed.
[In Hausa, on the political history of the Hausa and their neighbors.] Littafin wakoki. Jos, Nigeria : Published for Christian Media Fellowship by Challenge Publications, 1982. (365 p.) [In Hausa translation, a book of Christian hymns.] Maigari, Muhammad Tahir. Ilimin alkalanci na shari'a. Kano, Nigeria : Fairamma Publishing Co., 1991.
This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily covers Standard Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from Niger and other dialect areas of Nigeria. The dictionary includes new Hausa terminology for products, events, and activities of ...
The ensuing years have witnessed an outpouring of new publications on Chadic and Hausa, written by scholars from around the globe, thereby creating the need for a new, up-to-date bibliography. The first two editions, entitled Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics, were published in 2012 (Bayreuth) and 2013 (Indiana).
This bibliography on the Hausa language --to be frequently updated-- represents highlights from the last fifty years of library acquisitions at Columbia University. In addition to full-length novels, plays, poetry, and short stories, the Hausa literature collection includes a selection of Adabin Kasuwar Kano or "Kano market literature". These inexpensively-printed, short works of fiction ...
Hausa speakers in other parts of the world like Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Sudan, and Togo among others. The global population of Hausa ...
Hausa Phonology Paul Newman Indiana University 27.1. Introduction Hausa has the largest number of speakers of any language in sub-Saharan Africa. 1 It is the first language of some 30 million people in northern Nige-ria, the Niger Republic, and in scattered communities of settlers and traders in large towns throughout West Africa.
Definition. Hausaland, sometimes referred to as the Hausa Kingdoms, was a group of small independent city -states in northern central Africa between the Niger River and Lake Chad which flourished from the 15th to 18th century CE. The origins of the Hausa are not known, but one hypothesis suggests they were a group of indigenous peoples joined ...
This paper dwells on linguistic issues on coinage and neologism arising in Hausa political programmes in the media, from the sociolinguistic perspective, which gave birth and rebirth of words/phrases meaning. New words/phrase are created, the existing ones are lexically and semantically expanded to accommodate new meanings in Hausa language usage.
Hausa - Bibliography Adamu, Mahdi (1978). The Hausa Factor in West African History. London: Oxford University Press. Coles, Catherine, and Beverly Mack, eds. (1991). Women in Twentieth Century Hausa Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Hill, Polly (1972). Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting. ...
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (), Bahaushiya (); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa. 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 homogeneous people based ...