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A changing Hausa diet

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 1996
We report results of a longitudinal study of shifting patterns of food consumption in a rural Hausa-Fulani village in northern Nigeria. While the broad outlines of diet did not change over the 12 years between two dietary surveys, important shifts occurred: a decline in the consumption of local cultigens, with a corresponding decrease in total caloric ...
Nina L Etkin
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Temporal interpretation in Hausa

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013
This paper provides a formal analysis of the grammatical encoding of temporal information in Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), thereby contributing to the recent debate on temporality in languages without overt tense morphology. By testing the hypothesis of covert tense against recently obtained empirical data, the study yields the result that Hausa is ...
Anne Mucha
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Hausa

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1993
The following description of Hausa is based on the variety of the language spoken in Kano, Nigeria. The sample text is transcribed from a recording of a male native of Kano in his late 30's. This variety of Hausa is considered “standard”. Though Kano is a large urban center with some internal variation in speech, the sound inventory is relatively ...
Russell G. Schuh, Lawan D. Yalwa
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Hausa

2023
With an estimated population of up to 50 million, Hausa make up one of the largest people groups practicing Islam. Despite settlement of today’s Hausaland in the central Sudan by the early 1000s ce, the use of “Hausa” (often spelled Haoussa in French, with Hawsa now official in Niger) for its inhabitants is absent from early records; the word first ...
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Hausa

2019
The term “Hausa” refers to a language spoken by over thirty million first-language speakers living mainly in the region now comprising northern Nigeria and southern Niger, with large Hausa-speaking enclaves in northern Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, and the Sudan. This term is also commonly used to refer to the society that speaks this language.
Rossi, Benedetta, Rossi, Benedetta
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Islam and Hausa Culture

Lagos Historical Review, 2005
No abstract.
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Hausa

2001
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan. It is also widely spoken
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