Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. A History of the Hausa Language
  • Cited by 11
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 March 2022
      31 March 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009128070
      9781009123105
      9781009124300
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128070
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 252 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      African and Caribbean Language and Linguistics, Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    African and Caribbean Language and Linguistics, Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Information

    Book description

    With more than sixty million speakers across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Ghana Hausa is one of the most widely spoken African languages. It is known for its rich phonology and complex morphological and verbal systems. Written by the world's leading expert on Hausa, this ground-breaking book is a synthesis of his life's work, and provides a lucid and comprehensive history of the language. It describes Hausa as it existed in former times and sets out subsequent changes in phonology, including tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon. It also contains a large loanword inventory, which highlights the history of Hausa's interaction with other languages and peoples. It offers new insights not only on Hausa in the past, but also on the Hausa language as spoken today. This book is an invaluable resource for specialists in Hausa, Chadic, Afroasiatic, and other African languages as well as for general historical linguists and typologists.

    Reviews

    '… a must read for specialists in Hausa, Chadic, Afroasiatic and other African languages, as well as for general linguists and typologists.'

    Bernard Caron Source: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Contents
    References

    Metrics

    Altmetric attention score

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Why this information is here

    This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

    Accessibility Information

    Accessibility compliance for the HTML of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.