hausa

The name is coined from Ingausa; a creole of Hausa and English language.

If Mandarin or Hausa become the next de facto business languages in the area I live in, I'd learn them.

Obviously I would no more assume that the Hausa are a basal Afroasiatic group than that any Ethiopian group is.

In Nigeria for instance, the Hausa aren't known for their intelligence, and have a reputation for being plain dumb but very violent especially for religious causes (Islam).

If you want to be a little more cosmopolitan, most regions have some tradition or other of a morning porridge -- barley porridge in Nepal, rice as congee in China, a millet porridge called hausa koko in Ghana all come to mind.

On another note BBC Hausa service is facing mass resignation due to the newly opened TRT Hausa service (Turkey) promising the staff the BBC staff freedom to report positive News about Africa, unlike the BBC that only wants them to report negative and News about war and underdevelopment.

This is how 'latin americans' seem like one uniform group, or even 'sub saharan africans' or 'asians', while objectively Amhara from Ethiopia, Hausa from Nigeria and San from South Africa differ far more from each other than say Americans, Italians and Danes differ from each other.

Get it archived on Archive.org If you’re worried about translation, then provide another translation of it in technical and Old Mandarin, ancient Arabic, high Latin, koine Greek, Sanskrit, Hausa (Nigerian), and Shakespearean/King James English.

As a concrete example I've had personal experience with, in Hausa the sound written as `f` isn't pronounced labiodentally (upper teeth to bottom lip, the way it is in English) but rather bilabially (lips close together, not quite touching, and air forced between them at varying speeds depending on the word).

(Though, that's true for all the Afroasiatic languages including Amharic, Hebrew, and Hausa, but the FSI claims those are only "Level II" languages).

Who gets to decide that Hausa people must pronounce "New York" as Americans do, and that Japanese must no longer add a vowel onto the end of foreign words like "Disney Land"?

Moreover, and more interestingly, after I studied the Hausa language at university, and decided to travel on my own to live in Kano, Nigeria, I quickly was labeled by those around me a "bature" or European.

Hausa is a strong candidate for the hardest language to learn, and perhaps Indonesian for the easiest.

Kuma a cewar abokin aikina na Najeriya, yaren de-facto a Najeriya Ingilishi ne, ba Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba ba.

An ethiopian looks very different from a South African, who looks different from a Hausa.