Hausa

Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsə/
• Hyphenation: Hau‧sa

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Hausa pl (plural only)

1. A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.

Hausa

1. The Chadic language spoken by these people.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 191:

     She tells me she’s been intensively studying Hausa these past weeks, that it’s such a unique and precise language, one that you write the way you speak it, very historical and more Arabian than she’d thought.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hausa terms
• Appendix:Hausa Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Hausa

• ISO 639-3 code hau (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Hausa, hau ⁠

• Ahaus, ahaus

Compare hausa.

• IPA^(key): /háu.sá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [háu.sə́]

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Hausa f

1. Hausa language