Hausa

American  

[hou-sah, -suh, -zuh] / ˈhaʊ sɑ, -sə, -zə /

Or Haussa

noun

plural

Hausas,

plural

Hausa

1. a member of an Indigenous people of northern Nigeria and southern Niger whose culture has been strongly influenced by Islam.

2. the language of the Hausa people, belonging to the Chadic branch of the Afroasiatic family, widely used in Africa as a language of commerce.

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Hausa British  

/ ˈhaʊsə /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in N Nigeria

2. the language of this people: the chief member of the Chadic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is widely used as a trading language throughout W Africa and the S Sahara

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Example Sentences

With some 80 million speakers of the north's Hausa language spread across west and central Africa -- not to mention the vast Nigerian diaspora around the world -- Kannywood's potential market is huge.

From Barron's

A witness to the attack told BBC Hausa that there were no security forces in the village.

From BBC

Amongst themselves the militants spoke Fulfude - the language of the Fulani ethnic group spoken in many West African countries - but communicated with the locals in Hausa, the lingua franca of the region, he said.

From BBC

Local residents dubbed it Boko Haram - a name which in the Hausa language loosely translates as "Western education is forbidden" because of their opposition to Western-style schools.

From BBC

One inconsolable father, whose daughter is still being held captive, told BBC Hausa that his family had been crying non-stop and "it's hard to go back home and look at their faces".

From BBC