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What is Hausa known for?
The Hausa were known for fishing, hunting, agriculture, salt-mining, and blacksmithing. By the 14th century, Kano had become the most powerful city-state. Kano had become the base for the trans-Saharan trade in salt, cloth, leather, and grain.
Is Hausa a language?
Hausa is classified as a member of the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is the best known and most important member of the Chadic branch. It is the most widely used in the fields of education and it lays claim to a significant literatures.
What are the origin of Hausa?
The origins of the Hausa are not known, but one hypothesis suggests they were a group of indigenous peoples joined by a common language – Hausa – while another theory explains their presence as a consequence of a migration of peoples from the southern Sahara Desert.
What is the Hausa religion?
Sunni Islam
Religion. Orthodox Sunni Islam of the Maliki madhhab, is the predominant and historically established religion of the Hausa people.
How many wives can a Hausa man have?
four wives
Adult Hausa society is essentially totally married. Ideal marriage is virilocal/patrilocal, and it is polygynous: a man is allowed up to four wives at a time.
What is bride price called in Hausa?
Usually, the bride price starts from a minimum amount known as ‘Rubu Dinar’ in Hausa, an Arabic phrase which means ‘quarter kilogram of gold piece’, to the highest amount the groom can afford to pay. Payment of the dowry is known as Sadaki.
What do Hausa people eat?
Hausa people also like to eat rice, millet, and maize. Such grain-based meals are called tuwo in their native language. The most popular and well-known dish is called Suya. It is made of chicken, beef or ram in a style of spicy kebab.
Where is Hausa spoken in Africa?
Hausa is spoken largely in Western Africa by the Hausa people and by persons of Fulani ancestry. It is also known as Mgbakpa, Kado, Hausawa, Haoussaa, Habe and Abakwariga. Hausa is spoken in countries such as Nigeria, Chad, Togo, Niger, Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso.
What does Hausa language mean?
Hausa is a tone language, a classification in which pitch differences add as much to the meaning of a word as do consonants and vowels. Tone is not marked in Hausa orthography. In scholarly transcriptions of Hausa, accent marks indicate tone, which may be high (acute), low (grave), or falling (circumflex).
How to learn Hausa?
Find Hausa-speaking language exchange partners.