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206 relations: Accra, Acute accent, Adar, Affricate, Afroasiatic languages, Agadez, Akan languages, Alveolar consonant, Andalusia, Ansongo, Apostrophe, Approximant, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic, Arabic script, Arabic script in Unicode, Arewa, Asante Empire, Ɓ, Ɗ, Ƙ, Ƴ, Back vowel, Bambara language, Barikanchi pidgin, Bauchi, Bayajidda, BBC, Benin, Benue State, Bilabial consonant, Birnin Kebbi, Blue Nile State, Boko alphabet, Borno State, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Coast, Côte d'Ivoire, Cengage Group, Central Tano languages, Central vowel, Chad, Chadic languages, Circumflex, Close vowel, Constellation, Creaky voice, Dagomba people, Dapaong, ... Expand index (156 more) »
- Fusional languages
- Languages of Benin
- Languages of Niger
- Languages of Togo
Accra
Accra (Ga or Gaga; Nkran; Ewe: Gɛ; Ankara) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Acute accent
The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
See Hausa language and Acute accent
Adar
Adar (Hebrew:,; from Akkadian adaru) is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to the month of March in the Gregorian calendar.
Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
See Hausa language and Affricate
Afroasiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
See Hausa language and Afroasiatic languages
Agadez
Agadez (Air Tamajeq: ⴰⴶⴰⴷⴰⵣ, Agadaz), formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census.
Akan languages
Akan is a group of several closely related languages within the wider Central Tano languages. Hausa language and Akan languages are languages of Ghana.
See Hausa language and Akan languages
Alveolar consonant
Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.
See Hausa language and Alveolar consonant
Andalusia
Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.
See Hausa language and Andalusia
Ansongo
Ansongo is a rural commune and small town in the Gao Region of eastern Mali.
See Hausa language and Ansongo
Apostrophe
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.
See Hausa language and Apostrophe
Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
See Hausa language and Approximant
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
See Hausa language and Arabian Peninsula
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. Hausa language and Arabic are Fusional languages, languages of Cameroon, languages of Niger, languages of Sudan and Subject–verb–object languages.
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
See Hausa language and Arabic script
Arabic script in Unicode
Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms.
See Hausa language and Arabic script in Unicode
Arewa
Arewa or Arewaland is a Hausa word which means "The North".
Asante Empire
The Ashanti Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), sometimes called the Asante Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana.
See Hausa language and Asante Empire
Ɓ
Ɓ (minuscule: ɓ), called "B-hook" or "B with a hook", is a letter of the Latin alphabet and the International African Alphabet.
Ɗ
Ɗ (minuscule: ɗ), known as D with hook, is a letter of the Latin alphabet.
Ƙ
Ƙ (minuscule: ƙ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in Hausa to represent an ejective.
Ƴ
Ƴ (minuscule: ƴ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a hook.
Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
See Hausa language and Back vowel
Bambara language
Bambara, also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲) or Bamanankan (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲; Arabic script: بَمَنَنكَن), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 14 million people, natively by 4.2 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users. Hausa language and Bambara language are languages of Burkina Faso, languages of Ghana, languages of Ivory Coast and languages of Niger.
See Hausa language and Bambara language
Barikanchi pidgin
Barikanchi pidgin, Barikanci, or Bastard Hausa is a pidgin of the Hausa language spoken in Nigeria. Hausa language and Barikanchi pidgin are languages of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Barikanchi pidgin
Bauchi
Bauchi (earlier Yakoba) is a city in northeast Nigeria, the Administrative center of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate.
Bayajidda
Bayajidda (Hausa: Bàyā̀jiddà) was, according to the legends surrounding most West African states before the 19th century, the founder of the Hausa states.
See Hausa language and Bayajidda
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Benin
Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
Benue State
Benue State is one of the North Central states in Nigeria with a population of about 4,253,641 in the 2006 census.
See Hausa language and Benue State
Bilabial consonant
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.
See Hausa language and Bilabial consonant
Birnin Kebbi
Birnin Kebbi is a city located in Northwestern Nigeria It is the capital city of Kebbi State and headquarter of the Gwandu Emirate.
See Hausa language and Birnin Kebbi
Blue Nile State
Blue Nile State (ولاية النيل الأزرق) is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan.
See Hausa language and Blue Nile State
Boko alphabet
Boko (or bookoo) is a Latin-script alphabet used to write the Hausa language.
See Hausa language and Boko alphabet
Borno State
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Borno State
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
See Hausa language and Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
See Hausa language and Cameroon
Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of Ghana.
See Hausa language and Cape Coast
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.
See Hausa language and Côte d'Ivoire
Cengage Group
Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.
See Hausa language and Cengage Group
Central Tano languages
The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.
See Hausa language and Central Tano languages
Central vowel
A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
See Hausa language and Central vowel
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
Chadic languages
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
See Hausa language and Chadic languages
Circumflex
The circumflex because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
See Hausa language and Circumflex
Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.
See Hausa language and Close vowel
Constellation
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
See Hausa language and Constellation
Creaky voice
In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies the vocal range below the common vocal register.
See Hausa language and Creaky voice
Dagomba people
The Dagbamba or Dagomba are an ethnic group of Ghana, and Togo.
See Hausa language and Dagomba people
Dapaong
Dapaong (also known as Dapaongo or Dapango) is a city in northern Togo and prefecture seat of Tône in the Savanes Region, of which it is also the capital.
See Hausa language and Dapaong
Daura
Daura is a town and local government area in Katsina State, northern Nigeria.
Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
See Hausa language and Deutsche Welle
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
See Hausa language and Dialect
Diffa
Diffa is a city and Urban Commune in the extreme southeast of Niger, near the border with Nigeria.
Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
See Hausa language and Diphthong
Djougou
Djougou is the largest city in northwestern Benin.
See Hausa language and Djougou
Dorsal consonant
Dorsal consonants are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum).
See Hausa language and Dorsal consonant
Dosso Region
Dosso is one of the eight Regions of Niger.
See Hausa language and Dosso Region
Dosso, Niger
Dosso is a city in the south-west corner of Niger.
See Hausa language and Dosso, Niger
Dutse
Dutse is the capital city of Jigawa State in northern Nigeria, and also the capital of Dutse Emirate.
Dyula language
Dyula (or Jula, Dioula, Julakan ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a language of the Mande language family spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali, and also in some other countries, including Ghana, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. Hausa language and Dyula language are languages of Burkina Faso and languages of Ivory Coast.
See Hausa language and Dyula language
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Ejective consonant
In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.
See Hausa language and Ejective consonant
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
See Hausa language and Ethnologue
First language
A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
See Hausa language and First language
Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
See Hausa language and Fricative
Front vowel
A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.
See Hausa language and Front vowel
Fula language
Fula,Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Adlam: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪; Ajami: ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ, ݒُلَارْ, بُۛلَر), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 18 countries in West and Central Africa. Hausa language and Fula language are languages of Benin, languages of Burkina Faso, languages of Cameroon, languages of Niger and languages of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Fula language
Fula people
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.
See Hausa language and Fula people
Gao
Gao, or Gawgaw/Kawkaw, is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region.
Garoua
Garoua (also Garua; Fula: 𞤺𞤢𞤪𞤱𞤢, Garwa) is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River.
Gbe languages
The Gbe languages (pronounced) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. Hausa language and Gbe languages are languages of Benin, languages of Ghana, languages of Nigeria and languages of Togo.
See Hausa language and Gbe languages
Gezira State
Gezira, also spelt Al Jazirah, Al Jazeera and Al Jazira, is one of the 18 states of Sudan.
See Hausa language and Gezira State
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
Ghanaians
The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast.
See Hausa language and Ghanaians
Glottal consonant
Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.
See Hausa language and Glottal consonant
Glottalic consonant
In phonetics, a glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (movement or closure) of the glottis.
See Hausa language and Glottalic consonant
Gobir
Gobir (Demonym: Gobirawa) was a city-state in what is now Nigeria.
Gonja people
Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu, endonym Ngbanya) are an ethnic group that live in Ghana.
See Hausa language and Gonja people
Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Hausa language and Grammatical gender
Grave accent
The grave accent because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
See Hausa language and Grave accent
Gur languages
The Gur languages, also known as Central Gur or Mabia, belong to the Niger–Congo languages.
See Hausa language and Gur languages
Gusau
Gusau is a city in northwestern Nigeria.
Hadejia
Haɗejiya (also Haɗeja, previously Biram) is a Hausa town in eastern Jigawa State, northern Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Hadejia
Hafs
Hafs (706–796 AD; 90–180 Anno Hegirae), according to Islamic tradition, was one of the primary transmitters of one of the seven canonical methods of Qur'an recitation (qira'at).
Haoussa Foulane
Haoussa Foulane is a village and seat of the Commune of Gabero in the Cercle of Gao in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali.
See Hausa language and Haoussa Foulane
Hausa Ajami
Hausa Ajami script refers to the practice of using the alphabet derived from Arabic script for writing of Hausa language. Hausa language and Hausa Ajami are languages of Niger and languages of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Hausa Ajami
Hausa Kingdoms
Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihad.
See Hausa language and Hausa Kingdoms
Hausa literature
Hausa literature is any work written in the Hausa language.
See Hausa language and Hausa literature
Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.
See Hausa language and Hausa people
Hausa-language cinema
Hausa-language cinema, known informally as Kannywood, is the Hausa-language film industry of northern Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Hausa-language cinema
Hausa–Fulani
Hausa–Fulani are people of mixed Hausa and Fulani origin.
See Hausa language and Hausa–Fulani
Hausa–Gwandara languages
The Hausa–Gwandara languages (also known as the A.1 West Chadic languages) of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. Hausa language and Hausa–Gwandara languages are languages of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Hausa–Gwandara languages
History of Niger
Humans have inhabited present-day Niger since prehistoric times, with evidence of early activity dating back 60,000 years.
See Hausa language and History of Niger
History of Nigeria
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC.
See Hausa language and History of Nigeria
Implosive consonant
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.
See Hausa language and Implosive consonant
Imraguen people
The Imraguen, or Imeraguen (Berber: Imragen), are an ethnic group or tribe of Mauritania and Western Sahara.
See Hausa language and Imraguen people
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
See Hausa language and Internet Archive
Islamic calendar
The Hijri calendar (translit), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
See Hausa language and Islamic calendar
Jalingo
Jalingo is the capital city of Taraba State in north-eastern Nigeria, named in fulfulde (the word Jalingo means "superior place") and has been estimated with population of 418,000 as of 2018, The city has received the highest number of immigrants mainly from, Kano, Borno, Gombe and the neighboring Cameroon.
See Hausa language and Jalingo
Jega, Kebbi
Jega is a Local Government Area in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Jega, Kebbi
John Edward Philips
John Edward Philips (born 1952) is an American historian. He is a retired Professor of International Society, Hirosaki University of Japan, with many works on African history. After taking his PhD in history at UCLA in 1992, he taught at several universities in Japan, especially Hirosaki University (1997-2018) and Akita Keizaihoka University (1988-1997).
See Hausa language and John Edward Philips
Jos
Jos is a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria.
Kaduna
Kaduna is the capital city of Kaduna State, and the former political capital of Northern Nigeria.
Kandi, Benin
Kandi is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of eastern Benin.
See Hausa language and Kandi, Benin
Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad.
See Hausa language and Kanem–Bornu Empire
Kano (city)
Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.
See Hausa language and Kano (city)
Kanuri language
Kanuri is a Saharan dialect continuum of the Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as by a diaspora community residing in Sudan. Hausa language and Kanuri language are languages of Cameroon, languages of Niger and languages of Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Kanuri language
Kara, Togo
Kara is a city in northern Togo, situated in Kara Region, 413 km north of the capital Lomé.
See Hausa language and Kara, Togo
Katagum
Katagum is a town, a local government area and a traditional emirate in Bauchi State of north eastern Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Katagum
Katsina
Katsina, likely from "Tamashek" (meaning son or blood) or mazza (men) with "inna" (mother) is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Katsina
Kebbi State
Kebbi State (Jihar Kebbi; Fulfulde: Leydi Kebbi 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤫𞤦𞥆𞤭) is a state in northwestern Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Kebbi State
Keffi
Keffi Local Government Area and a traditional and commercial town in Nasarawa State, north central Nigeria.
Kogi State
Kogi State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the west by the states of Ekiti and Kwara, to the north by the Federal Capital Territory, to the northeast by Nasarawa State, to the northwest by Niger State, to the southwest by the Edo and Ondo states, to the southeast by the states of Anambra and Enugu, and to the east by Benue State.
See Hausa language and Kogi State
Kontagora
Kontagora is a major town on the south bank of the Kontagora River in north-west Niger State, Nigeria.
See Hausa language and Kontagora
Kordofan
Kordofan (كردفان) is a former province of central Sudan.
See Hausa language and Kordofan
Koyra Chiini language
Koyra Chiini (figuratively "town language"), or Western Songhay, is a member of the Songhay languages spoken in Mali by about 200,000 people (in 1999) along the Niger River in Timbuktu and upriver from it in the towns of Diré, Tonka, Goundam and Niafunké as well as in the Saharan town of Araouane to its north. Hausa language and Koyra Chiini language are Subject–verb–object languages.
See Hausa language and Koyra Chiini language
Koyraboro Senni
Koyraboro Senni (Koroboro Senni, Koyra Senni or Gao Senni) is a member of the Songhay languages of Mali and is spoken by some 400,000 people along the Niger River from the town of Gourma-Rharous, east of Timbuktu, through Bourem, Gao and Ansongo to the Mali–Niger border.
See Hausa language and Koyraboro Senni
Kwara State
Kwara State (Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà) is a state in Western Nigeria, bordered to the east by Kogi State, to the north by Niger State, and to the south by Ekiti, Osun, and Oyo states, while its western border makes up part of the international border with Benin Republic.
See Hausa language and Kwara State
Labialized velar consonant
A labialized velar or labiovelar is a velar consonant that is labialized, with a -like secondary articulation.
See Hausa language and Labialized velar consonant
Lafia
Lafia is a city in Nigeria's North Central region.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
See Hausa language and Latin script
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
See Hausa language and Lingua franca
List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.
See Hausa language and List of Latin-script digraphs
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Mandé peoples
The Mandé peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of native African ethnic groups who speak Mande languages.
See Hausa language and Mandé peoples
Mande languages
The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples.
See Hausa language and Mande languages
Manding languages
The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa.
See Hausa language and Manding languages
Maradi Region
The Region of Maradi is one of seven regions of Niger.
See Hausa language and Maradi Region
Maradi, Niger
Maradi is the second largest city in Niger and the administrative centre of Maradi Region.
See Hausa language and Maradi, Niger
Maroua
Maroua (Fula: Marwa,, 𞤥𞤢𞤪𞤱𞤢) is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon, stretching along the banks of the Ferngo and Kaliao Rivers, in the foothills of the Mandara Mountains.
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
See Hausa language and Mauritania
Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.
See Hausa language and Mid vowel
Misau
Misau is a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria.
Monophthong
A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at only beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
See Hausa language and Monophthong
Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
See Hausa language and Muslim world
N'Djamena
N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad.
See Hausa language and N'Djamena
Nafada
Nafada is one of the eleven Local Government Areas (LGA) of Gombe State, Nigeria.
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
See Hausa language and Nasal consonant
Nasarawa State
Nasarawa State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the east by the states of Taraba and Plateau, to the north by Kaduna State, to the south by the states of Benue and Kogi, and to the west by the Federal Capital Territory.
See Hausa language and Nasarawa State
National language
A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation.
See Hausa language and National language
Natitingou
Natitingou, informally referred to as Nati, is a city and commune in north western Benin and the capital of Atakora Department.
See Hausa language and Natitingou
Ngaoundéré
Ngaoundéré or N'Gaoundéré (Fula: N'gamdere,, 𞤲'𞤺𞤢𞤥𞤣𞤫𞥅𞤪𞤫𞥅) is the capital of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon.
See Hausa language and Ngaoundéré
Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
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Nigerian Armed Forces
The Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) are the military forces of Nigeria.
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Nigerian braille
Several braille alphabets are used in Nigeria.
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Nima, Accra
Nima is a Zongo residential town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Northern Region, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria (or Arewancin Nijeriya) was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.
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Nupe language
Nupe (also known as Anufe, Nupenci, Nyinfe, and Tapa) is a Volta–Niger language of the Nupoid branch primarily spoken by the Nupe people of the North Central region of Nigeria. Hausa language and Nupe language are languages of Nigeria.
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Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
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Palatal consonant
Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
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Parakou
Parakou is the largest city in northern Benin, and the third-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of around 206,667 people, and capital of the Borgou Department.
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Pidgin
A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.
Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English.
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Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs.
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Plosive
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
See Hausa language and Plosive
Postalveolar consonant
Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
See Hausa language and Postalveolar consonant
Pronunciation
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.
See Hausa language and Pronunciation
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio news network of France.
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Relative articulation
In phonetics and phonology, relative articulation is description of the manner and place of articulation of a speech sound relative to some reference point.
See Hausa language and Relative articulation
Rhotic consonant
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.
See Hausa language and Rhotic consonant
Sabon Zongo
Sabon Zango or Sabon Zongo is a Zongo residential town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.
Second language
A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).
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Sekondi-Takoradi
Sekondi-Takoradi is a city in Ghana comprising the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
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Sh (digraph)
The digraph/letter Sh is a digraph of the Latin alphabet, which is written as a combination of S and H.
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Sokodé
Sokodé is the second largest city in Togo, with a population of about 189,000.
Sokoto
Sokoto is a major city located in extreme north-western Nigeria, near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River.
Songhay languages
The Songhay, Songhai or Ayneha languages are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Hausa language and Songhay languages are languages of Benin and languages of Niger.
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Soninke language
The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne, سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), also known as Serakhulle or Azer or Maraka, is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people of West Africa. Hausa language and Soninke language are languages of Burkina Faso, languages of Ghana and languages of Ivory Coast.
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Staccato
Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Tahoua
Tahoua is a city in Niger and the administrative centre of the Department of Tahoua and the larger Tahoua Region.
Tenuis consonant
In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.
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Tillabéri
Tillabéri (var. Tillabéry) is a town in the extreme west of Niger.
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Timbuktu
Timbuktu (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; Tin Bukt) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.
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Timbuktu Manuscripts
Timbuktu Manuscripts, or Tombouctou Manuscripts, is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali.
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Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa.
Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Tuareg people
The Tuareg people (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria.
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University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
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Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.
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Warsh
Abu Sa'id Uthman Ibn Sa‘id al-Qutbi, better known as Warsh (110-197AH), was a significant figure in the history of Quranic recitation (qira'at), the canonical methods of reciting the Qur'an.
West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
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West Chadic languages
The West Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken principally in Niger and Nigeria. Hausa language and West Chadic languages are languages of Nigeria.
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Yobe State
Yobe is a state located in northeastern Nigeria.
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Yola, Nigeria
Yola (Fulfulde: Ƴola), meaning 'Great Plain' or 'Vast Plain Land', is the capital city and administrative centre of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
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Yoruba language
Yoruba (Yor. Èdè Yorùbá,; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. Hausa language and Yoruba language are languages of Benin, languages of Ghana, languages of Ivory Coast, languages of Nigeria, languages of Togo and Subject–verb–object languages.
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Zamfara State
Zamfara (Adlam: 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤶𞤢𞤥𞤬𞤢𞤪𞤢) is a state in northwestern Nigeria.
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Zaria
Zaria is a metropolitan city in Nigeria, located at present time within four local government areas in Kaduna State.
Zarma language
Zarma (Zarma Ciine/Sanni; Ajami: زَرْمَ ݘِينٜ / زَرْمَ سَنِّ) is one of the Songhay languages. Hausa language and Zarma language are languages of Niger.
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Zarma people
The Zarma people are an ethnic group predominantly found in westernmost Niger.
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Zazzau
The Zazzau, also known as the Zaria Emirate, is a traditional state with headquarters in the city of Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Zinder
Zinder (locally, Damagaram), formerly also spelled Sinder, is the third largest city in Niger, with a population of 235,605 as by the 2012 census.
Zongo settlements
Zongo settlements are areas in West African towns populated mostly by migrants from the northern savannah regions and the West African Sahel, especially from Niger and northern Nigeria.
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See also
Fusional languages
- American Sign Language
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Caribbean Hindustani
- Danish language
- English language
- French language
- Fusional language
- German language
- Greek language
- Hausa language
- Hebrew language
- Hindi
- Interlingua
- Irish language
- Italian language
- Ithkuil
- Khalsa bole
- Latin
- Mandaic language
- Navajo language
- Nepali language
- Norwegian language
- Pashto
- Pennsylvania Dutch language
- Portuguese language
- Punjabi language
- Romance languages
- Scottish Gaelic
- Semitic languages
- Sindarin
- Sinhala language
- Skolt Sámi
- Slavic languages
- Spanish language
- Standard German
- Suret language
- Tigrinya language
- Urdu
- Venedic language
- Welsh language
Languages of Benin
- Adja language
- Aguna language
- Akan language
- Alada language
- Bariba language
- Bariba people
- Berba language
- Boko language
- Busa language (Mande)
- Chakosi language
- Dendi language
- Ede language
- Ewe language
- Fon language
- Foodo language
- French language
- Fula language
- Gbe languages
- Gen language
- Gourmanché
- Gun language
- Hausa language
- Ifè language
- Kabiye language
- Kyenga language
- Lama language
- Languages of Benin
- Lukpa language
- Mbelime language
- Mokole language (Benin)
- Mooré
- Nateni language
- Ngangam language
- Notre language
- Pherá language
- Phla language
- Phla–Pherá languages
- Songhay languages
- Tammari language
- Tchumbuli language
- Tem language
- Tofin language
- Tɔli language
- Varieties of American Sign Language
- Waama language
- Waci language
- Yobe language
- Yom language
- Yoruba language
Languages of Niger
- Air Tamajeq language
- Algerian Saharan Arabic
- Arabic
- Bambara language
- Berber languages
- Chadian Arabic
- Daza language
- French language
- Fula language
- Gourmanché
- Hassaniya Arabic
- Hausa Ajami
- Hausa language
- Kanuri language
- Languages of Niger
- Margi language
- Songhaiborai
- Songhay languages
- Songhoyboro Ciine
- Tagdal language
- Tamahaq language
- Tasawaq language
- Tebu languages
- Teda language
- Varieties of American Sign Language
- Zarma language
Languages of Togo
- Adele language
- Adja language
- Agotime language
- Aguna language
- Ahlon language
- Anii language
- Bago-Kusuntu language
- Bissa language
- Chakosi language
- Delo language
- Ede language
- Ewe language
- French language
- Gbe languages
- Gen language
- Ginyanga language
- Gourmanché
- Guang languages
- Hausa language
- Ifè language
- Kabiye language
- Kebu language
- Konkomba language
- Kposo language
- Lama language
- Languages of Togo
- Lukpa language
- Moba language
- Mooré
- Nawdm language
- Ngangam language
- Ntcham language
- Phla language
- Tammari language
- Tem language
- Varieties of American Sign Language
- Waci language
- Wudu language
- Yobe language
- Yoruba language
References
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