Haussa
- a variation of Hausa.
Example Sentences
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Near the green-domed mosque, the Haussa mingled with their Moslem coreligionists, the fierce Fulani, and waited in the midday sun for the decision that would come from the palace.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Arab travellers and writers seem generally to have made but one river out of the Senegal, the Niger, Joliba, or Quorra, and the Benué or "river of Haussa."
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
Thinking that the Haussa sergeant was hit one of the covering party began to raise the machine-gun from the ground, but the Haussa was holding it tightly in his arms.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest
K. Three from the widely-spread nations of the interior—the Fulah, the Haussa, and the Bornu.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Kashna is represented to be the fountain of the Haussa language, the Florence of Soudan.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
