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427<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="About_the_Hausa_Language_[1][2][3]_[4]"><span id="About_the_Hausa_Language_.5B1.5D.5B2.5D.5B3.5D_.5B4.5D"></span>About the Hausa Language <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://hausadictionary.com/bu">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language">[2]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Hausa_language">[3]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://twitter.com/rhaplord/status/1535998186384461824">[4]</a></h2></div>
428<p>Hausa is the second-largest sub-Saharan African language in terms of numbers of native speakers. The greatest number of Hausa speakers are in the West African countries of Niger and Nigeria, but it is also spoken through large parts of West and Central Africa as a lingua franca or universal second language, especially among Muslims. It is written both in our alphabet and, outside urban areas, in a modified form of Arabic writing called Ajami.
429</p><p>Of the some 2,000 languages spoken on the African continent (one third of the world’s known languages!), Hausa is one of the two most important in terms of number of speakers and geographical spread. Hausa and Swahili vie for first place, with both claiming some 50 million speakers, including both native and second language speakers.
430</p><p>Hausa is widely used in West Africa. It is a first language in the northern Nigeria, in much of Niger, and is the second language for many people in Benin, Chad, Cameroon, and Togo, northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Libya, southern Nigeria, and Sudan. In addition, communities of Hausa speakers can be found throughout the continent, as well as in Europe and the United States. Hausa is taught in major universities in Africa and around the world and all major international broadcasters include programming in Haus
430a ( BBC, Radio France Internationale, China Radio International, Voice of Russia, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, and IRIB). Hausa also boasts a burgeoning film industry known as Kannywood (named after the major Hausa city of Kano).
431</p><p>Hausa belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family which includes such well-known languages as Arabic, Amharic,  and Hebrew.  It is written in two different alphabets: the Latin alphabet (boko) and the Arabic alphabet (ajami). In Globally Speaking: Hausa, you will be introduced to both.
432</p><p>The majority of native Hausa speakers reside in Niger and Nigeria. Nigeria, which is the most populous country in Africa, with a population of close to 150 million, is the fifth biggest supplier of US crude oil imports, after Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Venzuela. Hausa is a subject in Nigerian secondary schools and universities and is the language of instruction for the elementary grades in Hausa-speaking areas. More than half of the broadcasting on northern Nigerian radio and television stations is in Hausa, there are several Hausa language newspapers, and an lively publishing industry in Hausa.
433</p><p>The homeland of Hausa speakers is called Hausaland. From the late 9th through to the 15th century, this area which is today northern Nigeria and southern Niger, served as a nexus of cultural and economic activity. Exchanges of language, commerce, and religious belief and thought established this vast region’s strategic importance throughout the Islamic world.
434</p><p>During medieval times, what is now Northern Nigeria had contact with the great African empires of ancient Ghana, Mali, Kanem Borno, and Songhay and with countries of the Mediterranean region and beyond. Islamic influence was firmly established by the end of the 14th century, and Kano was famous not only as a center of Islamic studies but also as an important commercial center of the states and societies in the Western Sudan.
435</p><p>The Hausa (how-zah) are the dominant ethnic group in Northern Nigeria and in Southern Niger. Hausa speak their own language but may also understand Arabic, English, and Yoruba. Most Hausa are Muslim. There are small communities of Hausa, known as Maguzawa that never converted to Islam and held onto their traditional religious beliefs.
436</p><p>The Hausa are primarily farmers and market traders. They also raise several types of livestock, except cattle, which are raised by the Fulani. The Hausa and the Fulani ethnic groups have lived alongside one another for hundreds of years. Those Fulani who chose to give up their semi-nomadic lifestyle and settle permanently in northern Nigeria have integrated the Hausa culture and language into their own.
437</p><p>Over the centuries, some Hausa have migrated to areas of Southern Nigeria in search of economic opportunities. Spreading along the trade routes, small Hausa populations can be found all across Nigeria and in enclaves as far away as Chad and Ghana. Both the Hausa and the Fulani were instrumental in spreading Islam all across West Africa.
438</p><p>Hausa society is very hierarchical. Social standing is determined by an individual’s family background, occupation, wealth and patron-client relationships. Occupation tends to be hereditary; the first son typically follows in his father’s footsteps. Wealth is important in Hausa society, as it facilitates the development of patron-client relationships and increases family prestige.
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440<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Excerpt_from_the_academic_paper:_Distant_Supervision_and_Noisy_Label_Learning_for_Low_Resource_Named_Entity_Recognition:_A_Study_on_Hausa_and_Yorùbá_[5]"><span id="Excerpt_from_the_academic_paper:_Distant_Supervision_and_Noisy_Label_Learning_for_Low_Resource_Named_Entity_Recognition:_A_Study_on_Hausa_and_Yor.C3.B9b.C3.A1_.5B5.5D"></span>Excerpt from the academic paper: Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08370">[5]</a></h3></div>
441<p>Hausa language is the second most spoken indigenous language in Africa with over 40 million
442native speakers (Eberhard et al., 2019), and one of the three major languages in Nigeria, along with
443Igbo and Yorub` a. The language is native to the Northern part of Nigeria and the southern part of ´
444Niger, and it is widely spoken in West and Central Africa as a trade language in eight other countries:
445Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Cte d’Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Sudan. Hausa has several
446dialects but the one regarded as standard Hausa is the Kananci spoken in the ancient city of Kano
447in Nigeria. Kananci is the dialect popularly used in many local (e.g VON news1
448) and international
449news media such as BBC, VOA, DW and Radio France Internationale. Hausa is a tone language
450but the tones are often ignored in writings, the language is written in a modified Latin alphabet.
451Despite the popularity of Hausa as an important regional language in Africa and it’s popularity in
452news media, it has very little or no labelled data for common NLP tasks such as text classification,
453named entity recognition and question answering.
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455<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Why_Study_Hausa?_[6]"><span id="Why_Study_Hausa.3F_.5B6.5D"></span>Why Study Hausa? <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://afs.ku.edu/sites/afs.drupal.ku.edu/files/files/HausaLanguage.pdf">[6]</a></h3></div>
456<p>Hausa culture is spread throughout sub-Saharan West Africa, but the largest concentration of Hausa communities occurs in northern Nigeria. Hausa is classified as an Afroasiatic language of the Chadic subfamily. One of the most prominent languages of West Africa, Hausa is spoken by approximately fifty million native language speakers, and another ten to fifteen million non-native speakers. Hausa is spoken throughout the northern half of Nigeria, and
457the southern belt of the Republic of Niger. It is also used as a trade language in North and Equatorial Africa
458</p><p>Centers of Islamic learning, such as Kano, not only served to facilitate scholarly exchanges between traveling scholars, but also to cultivate vast numbers of indigenous scholars, who composed manuscript works written in Arabic and in the traditional Arabic script known as A’jami (used to write a range of languages including Hausa, Fulfulde, Kanuri, and Yoruba), and to advance book arts and crafts, including illumination, binding and calligraphy. These manuscripts provide a written testimony to the skill of African scientists, in astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, medicine and climatology in the Middle Ages.
459</p><p>Hausa is a Chadic language of West Africa. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hausa-language">40-50 million people</a> speak it as a first or second language (about 3% of Africa <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://content.lionbridge.com/common-languages-worldwide-infographic/">[7]</a>). It’s the most common trade language throughout the region.
460</p><p>West Africa is home to Nigeria, the continent’s most populated country. Here, millions of people are increasingly making online purchases. A major African leader in the IT boom, Nigeria helped position the nation as an emerging market for e-commerce. While cyber crime and logistical issues present some challenges, the opportunities in Nigeria are enormous for retailers who can capture attention and trust from the nation’s Hausa-speaking digital natives. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.lionbridge.com/blog/retail/10-emerging-languages-of-global-consumers/">[8]</a>
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462<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A_Hausa_text_in_Ajami">A Hausa text in Ajami</h2></div>
463<p>The creation of the Sokoto Caliphate in the jihad (holy war) of 1804-8 created one of the largest and most powerful pre-colonial empires which, even after it was overpowered by the British in 1903, continued to be an important force in the region.
464</p><p>For more, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/emm_abdalla/status/1007049165237620737">https://twitter.com/emm_abdalla/status/1007049165237620737</a>
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466<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview_of_the_Hausa_Language">Overview of the Hausa Language</h2></div>
467<p>The Hausa language is primarily spoken in Nigeria and Niger, although it is also widely used as a lingua franca for communication between speakers of other languages in West Africa. Hausa is a member of the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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469<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hausa_Alphabet_and_Hausa_Pronunciation">The Hausa Alphabet and Hausa Pronunciation</h3></div>
470<p>The Hausa language uses a variation of the Latin alphabet, which is also used by English. English speakers learning Hausa will therefore find that many Hausa letters look familiar, even if they don't always sound the same. However, there are also several letters can be written either as special characters (often called 'hooked consonants', because they appear to have small hooks on them) or as regular consonants with apostrophes. These letters represent glottalic consonants, a type of consonant sound which requires controlling the glottis (the space between the vocal cords) while speaking. This type of sound is not found in English.
471</p><p>Hausa is a tonal language, meaning that different tones can change a word's meaning. Language students who are beginning to learn Hausa should pay careful attention to the tones used by native speakers. There are three tones: the low tone, the high tone, and the falling tone.
472</p><p>The Hausa language also distinguishes between long and short vowel sounds. In some dictionaries and language references, tones and vowel length may be marked with various diacritics over vowels. However, the diacritic marks are not used in the everyday written form of the language, so the best way to learn Hausa pronunciation is to listen carefully to the way it is spoken by native speakers.
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474<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hausa_Vocabulary">Hausa Vocabulary</h3></div>
475<p>The language that has had the most influence on Hausa vocabulary is Arabic, from which it has borrowed numerous words over centuries of cultural contact. More recently, Hausa has borrowed vocabulary from English and French, particularly in the realm of technology. Usually, these loanwords are adapted to fit the sound system and grammar rules of the Hausa language.
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477<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hausa_Grammar">Hausa <a href="/Category:Grammar" title="Category:Grammar">Grammar</a></h3></div>
478<p>There are a number of grammar features that English speakers learning to speak Hausa may find interesting. For example, Hausa nouns have gender, meaning that every noun is considered to be either masculine or feminine. Other words in a sentence must agree with the gender of the noun. Adjectives usually come before the nouns they modify, although they can come afterwards in certain constructions. It is also very common to modify nouns with other nouns, especially those representing qualities, instead of using adjectives. The Hausa language has seven tenses plus an imperative mood, but the distinctions between the tenses are usually reflected in the subject pronouns rather than 
478in the verbs themselves. The usual word order in Hausa sentences is Subject-Verb-Object, the same as English.
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586						<span class="citizen-toc-numb">2.1</span>
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