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Hausa

Hausa Language & Grammar

Key Points

  • Hausa has two tones: High (ยด) and Low (ห‹)
  • Feminine nouns often end in -a; masculine in consonants or -i
  • Completive (past): Na tafi; Incompletive: Ina tafiya
  • Abubakar Imam: author of Ruwan Bagaja (first Hausa novel)
  • Karin magana (proverbs) are central to Hausa communication

Practice Questions

2 questions
1

Who wrote "Ruwan Bagaja", the first Hausa novel?

2

In Hausa, "Sannu" is used to mean: