hausa sign language

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Definition of hausa sign language in English English dictionary

A sign language used in Nigeria

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Hausa language

Afro-Asiatic language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger. Hausa, which is spoken by some 31 million people, belongs to the Chadic branch of Afro-Asiatic. Outside of Hausaland, communities of Hausa merchants have stimulated the use of Hausa as a lingua franca by tens of millions more across a broad area of the African Sahel and savanna region. Hausa is now customarily written in the Latin alphabet, introduced in the early 20th century, though writing in an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet, attested about a century earlier, continues in Qurnic schools and some other contexts

Hyphenation

Hau·sa sign lan·guage

Turkish pronunciation

hausı sayn länggwıc

Pronunciation

/ˈhousə ˈsīn ˈlaɴɢgwəʤ/ /ˈhaʊsə ˈsaɪn ˈlæŋɡwəʤ/