The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. By PAUL NEWMAN. Yale Language Series. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2000. Pp. xl + 760.

Afroasiatic languages number well into the hundreds, but reference grammars about them are few. This is all the more evident for the Chadic branch of Afroasiatic with approximately 150 languages, most of which remain "grammarless." Although many grammatical treatises of Hausa--Chadic's best-known member with about 35 million speakers, mostly in Nigeria and Niger (see the extensive listing in the bibliography, pp. ...

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