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The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland West Africa.
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.
Non-native Hausa arises from Hausa's use as a lingua franca in West Africa.
Among the Tuareg, Songhai, Moors, Hausa and Fulani of West Africa, women do not traditionally wear the veil, while men do.
In the northern parts of West Africa, human sacrifice had become rare early as Islam became more established in these areas such as the Hausa States.
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.
In West Africa, tribes such as the Dan, Gio, Kpelle, Hausa, Akan, and Dogon, use a uniquely human-centered system.
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.
* Tuareg Berbers, and some northern Berbers, Sahrawi, Songhai, Wodaabe, Fulani, and Hausa peoples of North and West Africa wear some varieties of turbans.
The term kouri is used in Hausa speaking and surrounding areas of West Africa.
Hausa-Fulani is a term used to refer collectively to the Hausa and Fulani people of West Africa.
It is the leading indigenous language of the southwestern lobe of the West African nation of Niger, where the Niger River flows and the capital city, Niamey, is located, and it is the second leading for that entire nation, after Hausa, which is spoken in south central Niger.
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 ).
Tie-dye techniques have also been used for centuries in the Hausa region of West Africa, with renowned indigo dye pits located in and around Kano, Nigeria.
In the West African forest region, cities developed among the Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa people as well as in the Ashanti and Benin kingdom.
Many terms from Arabic, Hausa and Dyula are seen in the Dagbani language, due to the importance of trans-saharan trade and West African trade and the historic impact that the Islamic religion has had in the area.
In the eastern parts of the Middle East, it was generally applied to the Persians, while in al-Andalus it referred to speakers of Romance languages-becoming " Aljamiado " in Spanish in reference to Arabic-script writing of those languages-and in West Africa, Ajami similarly refers to Ajami script, or the writing of local languages such as Hausa and Fulani in the Arabic alphabet.
The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, and in many West and Central African countries.
Oyo's cavalry forces included not only nobles, the norm in West African warfare, but foreign slaves from the Hausa, Nupe and Bornu states.
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 )
In the mostly Muslim region of West Africa, the root has been proposed as a source for the words Mallam ( Hausa language ) and Maame ( Wolof language ), which are used to denote Islamic scholars, or in areas practising folk Islam or folk magic, a local shaman.
Suya, is a shish kebab like food popular in West Africa, originally from the Hausa people of northern Nigeria and Niger.

Hausa and Chadic
Hausa ( ه َ و ُ س َ, Yaren Hausalanguage of the Hausa ) is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people.
* Many Afroasiatic languages in the Chadic, Cushitic and Omotic families have register-tone systems, such as Chadic Hausa.
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.

Hausa and 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.
:( A ) the Hausa, Ron, Bole, and Angas languages ; and
His linguistic publications cover a wide range of African languages, including the Gbe languages, Nuer, Kpelle, Shilluk, Hausa, and Guang.
Hausa is one of Africa's largest spoken languages after Arabic, French, English, Portuguese and Swahili.
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 ).
Because of this, and the surrounding Akan, Gur and Mande languages, Gaananci was historically isolated from the other Hausa dialects.
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 ).
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.
Non-native speakers of Hausa number around 25 million, and in some areas live close to native Hausa. Hausa has replaced many other languages especially in the North Central and North Eastern part of Nigeria, and continue gaining popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and musics which spread out throughout the region.
Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo are the most widely used Nigerian languages.
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.
* 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 )
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.

Hausa and group
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.
The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the influence of Islam on a Hausa group that, unlike most others, had not converted to it.
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.
Led by public figures of the MNSD outside government, the group took the name of Tandja's 2004 re-election slogan, Tazartché: a Hausa word meaning " Continuity ".
Led by public figures of the MNSD outside government, the group took the name of Tandja's 2004 re-election slogan, Tazartché: a Hausa word meaning " Continuity ".
He was a member of Hausa ethnic group.
Its population is mainly from the Ga tribal group, but houses also members of Hausa, Ewe, and Akan.
In precolonial times, the Hausa ethnic group referred to the Tiv ' Munchi ' a term not accepted by Tiv people.
The predominant ethnic group in the city is Hausa, with a few urbanized Fulani and Tuaregs living there as well.
There is in fact the Hillat Takarin which accommodates the ethnic group Takrour ( originally emigrated Hausa and other clans from Nigeria hundreds of years ago ), the Hillat Sudan ( refers to the Sudanese community in the town ) Hillat Halabit ( inhabited by Beni Amer pastoralists ); Hillat Somal ( inhabited by Somalis, in the trading centre ), built around a hill of granite blocks, just over 100 meter high, which separates it from the Hillat Takarin.
The major ethnic group living in Yobe State are Fulani, while other ethnic communities include Kanuri, Kare-Kare, Bolewa, Ngizim, Bade, Hausa, Ngamo and Shuwa, (( Bura )), maga.
The group combines traditional Hausa, Djerma, Fula and Songhai rhythms, instruments such as the molo ( a lute with a skin-covered body ), and modern instruments such as the electric bass.
The Hausa people ( sometimes grouped with the Fulani as Hausa-Fulani ) are the largest ethnic group.

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