The Hausa / Les Haoussas هَوْسَ

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This video is a very quick intro on the Hausa people and Hausa speakers. There's a few interesting bits of information about the history and stats of the Hausa and Hausa speakers across Africa.

DETAILED INFORMATION:

The Hausa (or Haoussa, Hausawa, Aausa, Gambari, Takari) are a people based in Northern Nigeria and Niger, but are present in many parts of West Africa, with sizable communities present in Ghana, the northern halves of Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Cameroon. The westernmost Hausa communities are present in Gambia (8,400); the 'Haoussa' and 'Ansongo' regions of eastern Mali; as well as Sierra Leone. Historically, Hausa-speaking communities were also present in the Timbuktu/Tombouctou region, where the village of 'Guezou Haoussa' exists to this day. The northernmost Hausa communities present in West Africa are based around the Saharan city of Agadez in northern Niger. There are also sizable communities present in Chad, Sudan and smaller urban migrant communities in Central and North Africa.


The Hausa language is widely used as a lingua-franca between West African Muslims in the vast areas between Ghana / Burkina Faso and Cameroon, (further west, Dyula / Bambara and Soninke / Wangara are used instead, although Hausa is still understood in varying degrees among people in Burkina Faso and northwestern Cote d'Ivoire). It is possible to traverse the region from the Sahara to the coastal forests, or travel between West and Northeastern Africa, and encounter Hausawa (Hausa-speaking) communities throughout.

The Hausa language itself belongs to the Chadic group of Afro-Asiatic languages, and is the most widely spoken from this group. Many other Chadic languages exist in the area between northern Nigeria and the Central African Republic that are related to the Hausa language in varying degrees. Fulani and Songhai (Zarma) inparticular have influenced Hausa pronunciation to the extent that the languages (all belonging to different language-families) can be said to belong to the same sprachbund. A sprachbund is a group of unrelated languages that through extended exposure, have come to use the same sound-systems, conjugations or shibboleths not seen outside of the group. This is seen in the use of particles between Songhai and Hausa (the fundamental 'ga' and 'da' particles or modifiers, various nouns, adjectives and verbs, common to both, but not to others), and the use of implosive 'b' and 'd' sounds, and the final but not initial '~n' particle (used between both Pulaar/Fulfulde, Songhai and Chadic languages, but not locally seen outside of this group).

What is important to note about the Hausa people is that, despite their language being in the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, Hausawa (Hausa native-speakers) cannot relate to one particular genotype, nor do they share any particular features that distinguish them from other African groups. On the contrary, Hausawa can range from people of Tuareg and part-Arab ancestry in desert climes, to people of Chadic, Fulani, Mandinka or Sudanic ancestry in the sahel, to people of Guinean or Bantu ancestry in the savannas and heavily forested regions of the continent. This makes the concept of Hausa-speakers somewhat akin to English-speaking, Hispanic or Francophonic identity. A Hausa man or woman may also be a Francophone, or belong to the Arab or English-speaking world, as this video shows.

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[BrittLovesGlam]

Very interesting they are beautiful people

[richbullva]

@awesomeKung I said bullshit because there is no proof of that,as a matter of fact i don't realize why we always assume that they came into africa,instead of africans going elsewhere. They are not EUrasian they are African..

[nograviti]

Nigeria was finally developing economically and now you idiots want to wreck everything in the name of a foreign religion? Was the prophet an African? Or an Arab? Fools. Soon you will undergo the same foolish identity crisis as the north Sudanese calling yourself Arabs. Idiots.

[nograviti]

@BeitilNabawiya well if you miserable Hausa's think they are bad, then do something about them. Who kills because someone doesn't share their belief? The fact that fringes of your co-reliigionists resort to this behaviour shows they have already lost the intellectual battle. Free speech is exactly that, speech, not violence idiot

[BeitilNabawiya]

@nograviti

Shut the fuck up,everybody is entitle to like or dislike whatever they want,it's called freedom of speech.

Boko Haram are bad guys even Hausa and other Muslims knows that,and they killed more Muslims than Christian ,so shut the fuck up with your rhetoric.

If Muslims don't like Western life styles,they are free to like whatever they want.

Fuck you anyway.

[nograviti]

Yet you imbeciles want to drag us back into the stone age in the name of religion. Niger? That impoverished wasteland, with illiteracy and child brides cannot even be considered a nation? Stupid idiots, one thing I will say about igbos at least they are industrious, you will find them in the british parliament to Guangdong in china.

[nograviti]

@BeitilNabawiya and @Zamzaki1 what are your foolish people doing to Nigeria with regards to Boko Haram? Western Education is forbidden? Illiterates is it any wonder all of your businesses are run by igbos? Even the chinese, Japanese and Indians have adopted western capitalism.

[3551Bashir]

@bolaji321 

[extraterrestrialbibi]

@BrittLovesGlam yeah cause ut probably a hausa descecnt just like i am they are arab descent just like the somalis theses too two tribes are like cousin tribes, glad to dsicover your root from an african girl.

[BrittLovesGlam]

And not every African American shares the same DNA really wow we all have roots from west Africa that is a true fact but some of us have mixtures in us from all over the world.

[BrittLovesGlam]

Like I said I took an actual DNA test nobody told me that I have Arabian DNA thats what my DNA reads lol ya very weird