14 Facts About Hausa language

Furthermore, the Hausa language is used as a lingua franca by non-native speakers in most of Northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and as a trade Hausa language across a much larger swathe of West Africa.

Eastern Hausa language dialects include Dauranci in Daura, Kananci in Kano, Bausanci in Bauchi, Gudduranci in Katagum Misau and part of Borno, and Hadejanci in Hadejiya.

Western Hausa language dialects include Sakkwatanci in Sokoto, Katsinanci in Katsina, Arewanci in Gobir, Adar, Kebbi, and Zanhwaranci in Zamfara, and Kurhwayanci in Kurfey in Niger.

Ghanaian Hausa language dialect, spoken in Ghana and Togo, is a distinct western native Hausa language dialect-bloc with adequate linguistic and media resources available.

Separate smaller Hausa dialects are spoken by an unknown number of Hausa further west in parts of Burkina Faso, and in the Haoussa Foulane, Badji Haoussa, Guezou Haoussa, and Ansongo districts of northeastern Mali, but there are very little linguistic resources and research done on these particular dialects at this time.

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Hausa language is widely spoken by non-native Gur, and Mande Ghanaian Muslims, but differs from Gaananci, and rather has features consistent with non-native Hausa language dialects.

Hausa language is spoken in various parts of Cameroon and Chad, which combined the mixed dialects of Northern Nigeria and Niger.

Hausa language has between 23 and 25 consonant phonemes depending on the speaker.

Hausa language has glottalic consonants at four or five places of articulation (depending on the dialect).

Hausa language vowels occur in five different vowel qualities, all of which can be short or long, totaling 10 monophthongs.

Noun plurals in Hausa language are derived using a variety of morphological processes, such as suffixation, infixation, reduplication, or a combination of any of these processes.

Hausa language's modern official orthography is a Latin-based alphabet called boko, which was introduced in the 1930s by the British colonial administration.

Hausa language has been written in ajami, an Arabic alphabet, since the early 17th century.

The first known work to be written in Hausa language is Riwayar Nabi Musa by Abdullahi Suka in the 17th century.