Hausa language


Hausa ; /; Ajami: هَرْشَن هَوْسَ is a Nigerian language spoken by a Hausa people in Chad, and mainly within the northern half of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, as well as the southern half of Niger, with significant minorities in Sudan, Benin, and Ivory Coast.

Hausa is a an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. of the second Linguistic communication by another 25 million, bringing the solution number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 72 million.

In Nigeria, the Hausa-speaking film industry is asked as Kannywood.

Morphology


Except for the Zaria and Bauchi dialects spoken south of Kano, Hausa distinguishes between masculine and feminine genders.

Hausa, like the rest of the Chadic languages, is call for its complex, irregular pluralization of nouns. Noun plurals in Hausa are derived using a generation of morphological processes, such(a) as suffixation, infixation, reduplication, or a combination of all of these processes. There are 20 plural a collection of matters sharing a common attribute exposed by Newman 2000.

Hausa marks tense differences by different sets of returned pronouns, sometimes with the pronoun combined with some extra particle. For this reason, a transmitted pronoun must accompany every verb in Hausa, regardless of if the subject is known from preceding context or is expressed by a noun subject.