Hausa

Foreign Service Institute (FSI) language course. Includes 14 audio CD discs ( = 15 hours), plus a 420-page text. Spoken in northern Nigeria and West Africa. This course teaches the basic phonology and language structure, and provides a basic vocabulary.

Hippocrene Books. Hausa is spoken by over 25 million people in Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon. No other indigenous African language, not even Swahili, has more native speakers. Many millions more use it as a second, third, or even fourth language. It is also heard throughout sub-Saharan West Africa, especially Ghana, and as far eastward as the Sudan. There are sizable groups of Hausa speakers in...

Hippocrene Books. Includes 18,000 entries. Spoken in Nigeria and Niger. More than 40,000 definitions in handy reference form. Notions of computerization, telecommunications, business, politics, law, and economy are well represented. Hausa is spoken in Nigeria, Niger and in sub-Saharan Africa, and has spread significantly though trade. Nicholas Awde is the cofounder of the Center for African Language Learning in London. Paperback. 454 pages. Size 5"x7"....

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