* In Africa: gero ( Hausa ), mahangu ( Namibia ), sanio, gero, babala, nyoloti, dukkin, souna, petit mil, heyni ( Zarma ), mexoeira ( Mozambique ), mashela ( Tigrinya ), mhunga ( Shona, Zimbabwe ), lebelebele ( Setswana, Botswana ), zembwe ( Ikalanga, Botswana ), د ْ ر ُ ع ْ dro ' o ( Tunisian Arabic ), د ُ خن dokhn ( Yemeni Arabic )

In the city of Gobir, Usman dan Fodio ( 1754 – 1817 ) accused the Hausa leadership of practicing an impure version of Islam and of being morally corrupt.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

In the 7th century, Dala Hill, a residual hill in Kano, was the site of a hunting and gathering community that engaged in iron work ; it is unknown whether these were Hausa people or speakers of Niger – Congo languages.

With the exception of small populations of Hausa, Shuwa Arabs, and expatriate Westerners in Garoua, the ethnic groups of the North speak languages of three major language families: Niger – Congo (' Adamawa '), Chadic, and Central Sudanic.

Hadejia – Kafin Hausa River traverses the State from west to east through the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands and empties into the Lake Chad Basin.

Though Tamburawa is in the Outskirt of kano, it is highly connected to the Major city of Kano with a ranging distance of about 10 – 15 km away from the city with a good transportation Network. The history of Tamburawa ’ s rise as a Hausa city-state, its embracing of Islam, and its emergence as a major power is documented in the Kano Chronicle, a richly detailed manuscript compiled in the 18th or 19th century from earlier sources.

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland West Africa.

Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d ' Ivoire etc.

This link between non-tonality and geographic location is not limited to Hausa alone, but is exhibited in other northern dialects of neighbouring languages ; such as the difference within Songhay language ( between the northernmost Koyra Chiini and Koyraboro Senni dialects of Timbuktu and Gao, and the Zarma dialect, spoken from western Niger to northern Ghana ), and within the Soninke language ( between the northernmost dialects of Imraguen and Nemadi spoken in east-central Mauritania, and the southern dialects of Senegal, Mali and the sahel ).

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 ( where it is designated as a minority language by the Malian government ), but there are very little linguistic resources and research done on these particular dialects at this time.

Gaananci exhibits noted inflected influences from Zarma, Gur, Dyula and Soninke, as Ghana is the westernmost area in which the Hausa language is a major lingua-franca ; as well as it being the westernmost area both the Hausa and Djerma ethnic groups inhabit in large numbers.

In Africa there is no term for music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa.

Hausa is one of Africa's largest spoken languages after Arabic, French, English, Portuguese and Swahili.

Eastern Hausa dialects include Kananci which is spoken in Kano, Bausanchi in Bauchi, Dauranchi in Daura, Gudduranci in Katagum Misau and part of Borno and Hadejanci in Hadejiya.

The Ghanaian Hausa dialect ( Gaananci ), spoken in Ghana and western Ivory Coast, is a distinct western native Hausa dialect-bloc with adequate linguistic and media resources available.

Gaananci forms a separate group from other Western Hausa dialects, as it now falls outside the contiguous Hausa-dominant area, and is usually identified by the use of c for ky, and j for gy.

This is attributed to the fact that Ghana's Hausa population descend from Hausa-Fulani traders settled in the zongo districts of major trade-towns up and down the previous Asante, Gonja and Dagomba kingdoms stretching from the sahel to coastal regions, in particular the cities of Tamale, Salaga, Bawku, Bolgatanga, Achimota, Nima and Kumasi.

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

* Many Afroasiatic languages in the Chadic, Cushitic and Omotic families have register-tone systems, such as Chadic Hausa.

Jihad fever swept northern Nigeria, with strong support among both the Fulani and the Hausa.

Another difference between native and non-native Hausa is the omission of vowel length in words and change in the standard tone of native Hausa dialects ( ranging from native Fulani and Tuareg Hausa-speakers omitting tone altogether, to Hausa speakers with Gur or Yoruba mother tongues using additional tonal structures similar to those used in their native languages ).

Nigeria maintains close relations with the Republic of Niger, in part because both nations share a large Hausa minority on each side of their 450-mile ( 1500 km ) border.

Nigeria maintains close relations with the Republic of Niger, in part because both nations share a large Hausa minority on each side of their 1500 km border.

In some Hausa communities, it is steamed and made into salad using kuli-kuli ( traditional roasted peanut cakes with oil extracted ), salt, pepper, onion and tomatoes.

Today, one can find Berbers of Tamazgha ( North Africa ), Māori of New Zealand, Hausa people of Northern Nigeria, Kurdish people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos.

Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines with Hausa and Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the south-west, Ijaws in the south-south and Igbo in the south-east.

For the Hausa of northern Nigeria, a typical breakfast consists of kosai ( cakes made from ground beans which are then fried ) or funkaso ( wheat flour soaked for a day then fried and served with sugar ).

Eid is popularly known as " Small Sallah " in Nigeria and people generally greet each other with the traditional greeting: " Barka Da Sallah ," which means " Greetings on Sallah " in the Hausa language.

The Gullah language is based on English, with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kongo, Umbundu and Kimbundu.

Many of the Fulani led by Usman dan Fodio were unhappy that the rulers of the Hausa states were mingling Islam with aspects of the traditional regional religion.

Within Africa, Oromo is the language with the fourth most speakers, after Arabic ( if one counts the mutually unintelligible spoken forms of Arabic as a single language and assumes the same for the varieties of Oromo ), Swahili, and Hausa.

Language families which distinguish ejective consonants include all three Caucasian families ( Northwest Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian languages and Kartvelian Georgian language ); the Athabaskan, Siouan and Salishan families of North America, along with the many diverse families of the Pacific Northwest from central California to British Columbia ; the Mayan family and Aymara ; the southern varieties of Quechua ( Qusqu-Qullaw ); the Afro-Asiatic family ( notably most of the Cushitic and Omotic languages, Hausa and South Semitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya ) and a few Nilo-Saharan languages ; Sandawe, Hadza, and the Khoisan families of southern Africa.

Zinder rose from a small Hausa village to an important center of the Trans-Saharan trade with the founding of the Sultanate of Damagaram in 1736 by Kanouri aristocrats.

The largest ethnic groups in Niger are the Hausa, who also constitute the major ethnic group in northern Nigeria, and the Zarma Songhay ( also spelled Djerma-Songhai ), who also are found in parts of Mali.

More than 250 ethnic groups are native to Nigeria, and many more have immigrated there in recent years ; the largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.

The Mandinka, Malinke ( also known as Mandinko or Mandingo ) are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa with an estimated population of eleven million ( the other 3 major ethnic groups in the region being the non-related Fula, Hausa and Songhai ).

Following the Fulani War, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest states in Africa and included large populations of both Fulani and Hausa.

The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, and in many West and Central African countries.

Efik is a dialect cluster spoken by about 3½ million people of Akwa Ibom State and Cross River States of Nigeria, making it the sixth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, and Kanuri.

The Hausa people ( sometimes grouped with the Fulani as Hausa-Fulani ) are the largest ethnic group.