Hausa Language

The Hausa language is the largest and best-known member of the Chadic subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages. Hausa has borrowed freely from other languages, especially Arabic, and is adapting well to the demands of contemporary cultural change. It has become a common language for millions of non-Hausa West Africans, and sizeable Hausa-speaking communities exist in each major city of West and North Africa as well as along the trans-Saharan trade and pilgrimage routes.

Hauses are of an African people of north-western Nigeria and south-western Niger. The Hausa are an ethnically diverse but culturally fairly homogeneous people numbering about 10 million to 15 million individuals.