languages similar to hausa

@Paris10: All that you said the Yoruba copied from Hausa are actually Arabic words. p. 397. Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Idoma, Igala come from the same language family. It has replaced many other languages especially in the north-central and north-eastern part of Nigeria and continues to gain popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and music which spread out throughout the region. Yale University Press. Hausa is an Afro-Asiatic language and not similar from the Southern languages. Re: Similar Words Between Hausa/yoruba Languages And That Of Igbo/idoma by NegroNtns ( m ): 8:43pm On Sep 30 , 2011 Eastern Hausa dialects are Kananci, Bausanchi, Dauranchi, Gudduranci and Hadejanci.Western Hausa dialects are Sakkwatanci, Kutebanci, Katsinanci, Arewanci, and Kurhwayanci.

Hausa and the Yoruba has much in common, Igbo and Kalaheri people of Botswana will make good neighbours @poster your mama born and breed u well ten gbosa for u.Like someone already said here, Igbo, Yoruba and most southern language have something in common. Re: Similar Words Between Hausa/yoruba Languages And That Of Igbo/idoma by Nobody: 9:56pm On Sep 29, 2011 alj_harem: But the yoruba and igbo words meant the same thing unlike the chinese Another 17 million people speak Hausa as a second language. Hausa got nothing in common with any southern languages.is there a word like ngbo in IGBO meaning you hear or not so?? The Hausa are predominantly Muslim. The Hausa cultural practices stand unique in Nigeria and have withstood the test of time due to strong traditions, cultural pride as well as an efficient precolonial native system of government. None of these are in active use beyond perhaps some individuals. It belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afro- Asiatic language family. 3 • LANGUAGE Hausa is the most widely spoken language in west Africa. This link between non-tonality and geographic location is not limited to Hausa alone, but is exhibited in other northern dialects of neighbouring languages; such as differences within the Gaananci forms a separate group from other Western Hausa dialects, as it now falls outside the contiguous Hausa-dominant area, and is usually identified by the use of Hausa is also spoken in various parts of Cameroon and Chad, which combined the mixed dialects of Non-native speakers of Hausa numbered more than 25 million and, in some areas, live close to native Hausa. Hausa, like many African languages, has a special class of words with particular sound characteristics, called ideophones, associated with vivid sensory or mental experiences. Areas of Niger and Nigeria where Hausa people are basedNewman, Paul (1937/2000) The Hausa Language: an encyclopedic reference grammar. The home territories of the Hausa people lie on both sides of the border between Niger, where about one-half of the population speaks Hausa as a first language, and Nigeria, where about one-fifth of the population speaks it as a first language. They are written with modified versions of Latin letters.

The claim dat the yorubas and igbos originated from the same decendants reminds me of the tower of babel. Except for the Zaria and Bauchi dialects spoken south of Kano, Hausa distinguishes between masculine and feminine genders. Basic Vocabulary (tones not shown) Hausa has between 23 and 25 consonant phonemes depending on the speaker. Other contributors have been Nigerian and Nigerien languages like Kanuri, Yoruba and Fula, and north African ones like Mande and Tuareg. Hausa is written in Arabic characters, and about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic. Maybe the oramiyan staff was their version of the tower of babel before God scattered them:-D It is spoken by an estimated 22 million people. Consequently, and in spite of strong competition from western European culture as adopted by their southern Nigerian counterparts, have maintained a rich and peculiar mode of dressing, food, language, marriage system, education system, traditional architecture, sports, music and other forms of traditional entertainment.