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

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 ).

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba " great river " in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili " great water " in Igbo ; Egerew n-Igerewen " river of rivers " in Tuareg ; Isa Ber " big river " in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa ; and Oya in Yoruba.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

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.

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.

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.

* Sakara drum, an instrument played by the Yoruba and Hausa peoples of Nigeria.

To simplify matters, we will refer to them here as the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo-based ; or Northern, Western and Eastern parties.

* Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo with close to 20 million speakers each are the major languages of Nigeria, all three with regional status, and none with majority status.

In the West African forest region, cities developed among the Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa people as well as in the Ashanti and Benin kingdom.

However, distinct regional variations appear between the northern movies made primarily in the Hausa language, the western Yoruba movies, the Edo language movies shot in Benin City, and the Igbo movies shot in the southeast.

The Adbassa Empire would last three centuries alongside the Bornu, Hausa, and Yoruba kingdoms.

However, reports from other languages ( Cantonese, Yoruba, Hausa, Ewe, to name a few ) challenge this statement, showing instead that ideophones can be fully integrated into sentences, just like ordinary verbs and nouns.

As a market town frequently attracting many people as a stop off point in trading Parakou is by far the most ethnically diverse city in Benin including Bariba, Dendi, Somba, Fon, Gun, Mina, Berba, Djerma, Ibo, Yoruba, Nagot, Hausa, Kabrais, Warma, Fula, and Tuareg.

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.

These are the big three, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba, each with some 20 million speakers or more.

Some speakers are bilingual or multilingual in Ewe and French or English and / or other languages such as Akan, Ga, Hausa, Kabiye, Akposo, Yoruba etc.

argentea or " Lagos spinach " is one of the main boiled greens in West Africa, where it is known as soko yòkòtò ( Yoruba ) or farar áláyyafó ( Hausa )

Its population is mostly Hausa with some Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo etc.

In Nigeria Egusi is very popular in the midst of the Yoruba people, followed by the Igbo people and not long ago the Hausa people started the cooking of Egusi as one of their favourite soups.

Notable among these are the Igbira, the Bini, the Igbo, the Hausa, the Idoma and the Yoruba ethnic groups.

Violence between Christians and Muslims ( usually Igbo Christians and Hausa or Fulani Muslims ) has been incessant since the end of the civil war in 1970.

The conflict between the Igbo and Hausa made it easier for the British to consolidate their power in the region.

* labialized voiceless velar plosive ( Listen ) ( in Northwest Caucasian languages, Nahuatl, Taos, Chipewyan, Hadza, Gwich ’ in, Tlingit, Akan, Nez Perce, Archi, Cantonese, Wari ’, Chaha, Dahalo, Hausa, Igbo, Italian, Lao, Nahuatl, Paha, Tigrinya )

* labialized voiced velar plosive ( Listen ) ( in Northwest Caucasian languages, Akan, Archi, Chaha, Dahalo, Hausa, Oowekyala, Hadza, Igbo, Gwich ’ in, Paha, Tigrinya )

The Hausa traders provided horses to the Nike which were used for rituals by the Igbo.

The main rivals of the mostly Igbo Eastern Nigerians were the Hausa / Fulani people of Northern Nigeria.

The Hausa tend to be Muslim and the Igbo are predominantly Christian.

* Nigerian language-Yoruba / Hausa / Igbo Languages

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.

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.

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.

Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

Non-native pronunciation vastly differs from native pronunciation by way of key omissions of implosive and ejective consonants present in native Hausa dialects, such as ɗ, ɓ and kʼ / ƙ, which are pronounced by non-native speakers as d, b and k respectively.

Use of masculine and feminine gender nouns and sentence structure are usually omitted or interchanged, and many native Hausa nouns and verbs are substituted for non-native terms from local languages.

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.

Hausa language and cultural ties are strong, but there is little interest in a pan-Hausa state.

Hausa language and cultural ties are strong, but there is little interest in a pan-Hausa state.

* The first of seven Hausa city-states are founded in Nigeria.

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 ).

The Hausa, also of West Africa, classify drummers into those who beat drums and those who beat ( pluck ) strings ( the other 4 player classes are blowers, singers, acclaimers, and talkers ), as reported by Ames and King in Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Contexts, 1971, Northwestern U. Press.

Among them are four African terms, including the Hausa word " Boog " and the Mandingo word " Booga ", both of which mean " to beat ", as in beating a drum.