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Berber Loanwords in Hausa
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Kossmann, Maarten. Berber Loanwords in Hausa. (Berber Studies vol. 12). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. x, 228. ISBN 3-89645-391-2. Paperback. euro34.80.
This volume expands the line of research established by the Hausa scholar Claude Gouffe on linguistic contacts between Tuareg and Hausa. "Introduction" [1-26] discusses lexicographic sources, transcription and the languages of the Niger desert which include a possible unknown substratum language. "Early Berber loanwords in ...
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Berber Loanwords in Hausa
Studies in African Linguistics
; Kossmann, Maarten. Berber Loanwords in Hausa. (Berber Studies vol. 12). Cologne: Rdiger Kppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. x, 228. ISBN 3-89645-391-2. Paperback. euro34.80. This volume expands the line of research established by the Hausa scholar Claude Gouffe on linguistic contacts between Tuareg and Hausa.
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(book reviews)
World Literature Today
; Hausa is one of the few major indigenous African languages whose large body of literature receives serious critical attention. Unlike studies of specific African traditional genres such as Trevor Cope's book on the Zulu izibongo praise poems or Wande Abimbola's on the Yoruba ifa divination poetry,
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Existential and possessive predications in Hausa (1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract The functions of the Hausa particle da are, among others, an existential predicate, a comitative preposition, and a coordination conjunction. It is also used in the main possessive 'have' predication in combination with the copula naa 'be at'. In previous accounts, this possessive
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; 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
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Charismatic figure's death raises ethnic tension in Nigeria Other tribes grow weary of the military rule of the Hausa
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... said Abraham Adesanya, a leading democracy activist. "The Road to Kigali," reads the headline in the latest edition of the News, a Nigerian weekly. Nigerian readers immediately recognized both the capital of Rwanda and the pointed reference to the tribal ...
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The Hausa video film: the call of the muezzin
Film International
; ... moonshine, Danlami would not miss his film. He bought a black-and-white television set in 1985, and has only used it as a source of news, which is not available at the cinema. He has no particular preference for any type of film, but he seems to like Indian, Chinese ...
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The legacy of Yohanna Gowon.
International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ... night and cooed, then the supposed Good News the missionaries had brought should be ... to Christianity. Gowon's Conversion The news of the mass conversion of Ngas in Kabwir ... maintained the mission's cemetery. Soon the news of Gowon's skills spread, and people outside ...
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Creating Modernities through Conversation Groups: The Everyday Worlds of Hausa Migrants in Niamey, Niger
African Studies Review
; ... popular in the groups I studied: world and national news, particularly news about politics, diplomacy, war, technology, international ... times men listen carefully to, and then discuss, the news and football games (local, national, and global), Islamic ...
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English: The Killer Language? OR A PASSING PHASE?
Whole Earth
; OR A PASSING PHASE? Whether we consider English a killer language or not, whether we regard its spread as benign globalization or linguistic imperialism, the expansive reach of English is undeniable and, for the time being, unstoppable. There are reasons to believe that the English language will
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Women, religion and guilt in Hausa home video: an assessment
Film International
; ... so that she was even ready to welcome a second wife, when the news reached her through the Dillaliya. In the bad woman or bitchy ... second wife. Of course, she 'did not take kindly to a co-wife. The news and the eventual arrival of the junior wife sent her into an ...
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