| In large cities, such as Kano or Katsina, Hausa live either in the old sections of town or in newer quarters built for civil servants. |
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| In the Hausa language, for instance, there is no word for a woman who has reached adulthood but has never been married. |
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| The dry, open grasslands of the savanna make cereal farming and herding a way of life for the Hausa and the Fulani. |
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| Afaan Oromoo is the third most widely spoken language in Africa, after Arabic and Hausa. |
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| Hausa tribesmen rubbed shoulders with Fulani pastoralists and Songhay from the west. |
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| In addition to Swahili, Hausa, Gikuyu and Zulu are being taught as departmental offerings. |
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| Over half the population of Niger speak Hausa while an even greater number exist in the northern states of Nigeria. |
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| In northern Nigeria many people who are not ethnic Hausas speak both Hausa and their own tribal language. |
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| The three major groups are the Hausa and Fulani in the north, the Yoruba in the west, and the Igbo in the east. |
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| Hausa women wear a wrap-around robe made of colorful cloth with a matching blouse, head tie, and shawl. |
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| Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa. |
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| The major languages are English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Fulani. |
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| Beginning in 1966 there were pogroms by Hausa and Fulani in northern Nigeria against Nigerians who had moved there for work from the more developed south. |
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| The African Hausa of Zaria and most Sudanic regimes included slaves in all ranks of the soldiery and command. |
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| All the boys were named Mohammed, as is the custom among his tribe, the Hausa. |
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| Learning by Ear is available in six languages: English, Kiswahili, French, Hausa, Portuguese and Amharic. |
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| Songhai plays an important vehicular role in West Niger, although it faces competition from Hausa, even in the capital, Niamey. |
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| Hausa morphology is characterized by complex alternations of sound and tone sequences. |
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| This has forced large numbers of land-hungry Igbo, Ibibio, and Hausa people to migrate to other parts of the country. |
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| Members were reminded of the OAU position on Kiswahili alongside Arabic, Hausa, and a Nguni-related language for Southern Africa. |
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| In November, 100 people were killed in Lagos in a clash between OPC members and northern Hausa traders. |
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| This requires standardisation of all national languages other than Hausa and Arabic, which are already in a state of development. |
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| The languages spoken by the majority of these people are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, which are Nigeria's national languages. |
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| Apart from an array of dialects and English, the official language, the Hausa and Fulfuda languages are widely spoken. |
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| Linguistic management would be facilitated if Hausa and Zarma are given specific status as national languages. |
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| Kafanchan crisis between Kataf community and their Hausa Zangon neighbours is a well known case. |
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| At the secondary school level, English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are compulsory languages for teaching. |
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| Among the Hausa people, having many children brings status within the community. |
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| They are broadcast in English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin English. |
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| In others, such as Hausa, Shona, and Swahili, because of bilingualism and code-mixing, the influence may have affected not only vocabulary but also structure. |
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| Many of the Tuareg also speak Songhay, Hausa, and French, and read Arabic. |
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| This is resulting in increased tensions between Fulani herders and Hausa cultivators over encroachment of fields on pastureland, encroachment of herds on planted fields, and over-burdening of water points. |
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| However, even if northward movement of Hausa settlers has more or less ceased, the natural increase of the population has begun to impose strains on available assets. |
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| Payment in kind' is grain, and relates to the work done by Bororo men who go south to stay with Fulani agropastoralists and work on their fields, sometimes alongside local Hausa casual labour. |
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| Typically, employed labour comes from within the village, but at times of increased demand, extra workers come in from surrounding Hausa villages. |
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| Furthermore, twelve studies and documents on related themes as well as an abridged version of that main edition in English, French, Kiswahili, Hausa and Fulfulde were published. |
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| To start off, gender-determined tasks and authority were investigated for old and young women and men and boys and girls in five villages in the programme area: three Hausa and two Peuhl. |
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| Additionally, this new version of software has improved recognition of African languages such as Bambara, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Kiswahili. |
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| Hausa is the second largest language in Africa, after Swahili. |
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| That diversity is represented at Minawao where Kanuri, Hausa, Fulani, Mandara and many other peoples are present. |
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| Even more serious clashes between Arab nomads and Hausa locals were witnessed near the village of Bados in Rosaris locality, culminating in the killing of one Arab nomad and two Hausa men. |
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| Known as wahaya in the local Tamasheq language, they are seen as a sign of prestige among wealthy buyers in Niger and northern Nigeria's Hausa ethnicity. |
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| For example, the Hausa zone has 30 million people in North Nigeria and Niger, and the Mande zone has 15 million people in Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire. |
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| His friends jeer in Hausa, the local language, until he comes clean. |
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| What the Fulani here all share in common, and what differentiates them from the Hausa, is that they take their livestock to seasonal grazing away from the home area, especially in crop-growing season. |
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| A more positive way to put this is that not only the Fulani, but the Hausa population take advantage of the pastures in this area, which as yet is not overcrowded by fields. |
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| Agricultural activity has yielded considerably more than subsistence, permitting the Hausa to practice such craft specializations as thatching, leatherworking, weaving, and silversmithing. |
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| Two days after the riots erupted, a Hausa group produced a letter it claimed to have sent to the Lagos governor on November 8th, warning him that the OPC was planning an attack. |
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| There is considerable gifting of milk: perhaps one-third of a wealthier household's milk will go to a poor neighbour, and milk is also sometimes given to poor Hausa households. |
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| These plans which have been made into an audio-visual format in English and French, will also be converted to Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba Languages soon. |
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| For example, Yoruba is spoken in six states, Igbo in four states, Annang, Efik and Ibibio in two states while Hausa is spoken across all the states in the North. |
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| Out of these 250 ethnic groups, the three major ones comprise of Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo cultures whilst the minor ones include Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, Edo and Nupe. |
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