Language/Hausa
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Welcome to the Hausa learning page!
You will find below many free resources to learn and practice this language.
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Facts about Hausa
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
hau
- Autonyms (how to write "Hausa" in Hausa):
Harshen Hausa / هَرْشَن هَوْسَ
- Other names for "Hausa":
Haoussa, Hawsa, Hausawa, Haussa, Abakwariga, Habe, Kado, Mgbakpa
- The Hausa language is spoken in:
Nigeria
Hausa Dictionaries
• Hausa-English dictionary by George Percy Bargery (1934)
• 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)
• 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 alphabets)
• 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 [PDF]
• Hausa bird names [PDF]
• The provenance of Arabic loanwords in Hausa: a phonological and semantic study, by Mohamed El-Shazly, thesis (1987)
• Hausa proverbs by George Merrick (1905)