Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-739) and index.

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Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan. It is also widely spoken as a second language and has expanded rapidly as a lingua franca. Hausa is a member of the Chadic language family which, together with Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber and Ancient Egyptian, is a coordinate branch of the Afroasiatic phylum. This.

HAUSA -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Cross-Referencing, Abbreviations, Symbols, and Transcription -- Map -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Previous Linguistic and Pedagogical Works on Hausa -- 2. Data Sources -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonological Inventory -- 2.1. Consonants -- 2.2. Vowels and diphthongs -- 3. Tone -- 3.1. Fixed tone patterns -- 3.2. Tonal polarity -- 4. Intonation -- 4.1. Statements -- 4.2. Interrogative constructions -- 5. Word Structure and Phonotactics.

6. Syllable Structure -- 7. Phonological Rules and Processes -- 7.1. Palatalization -- 7 2. Syllable-final sonorization -- 7.3. Gemination -- 7.4. Metathesis -- Chapter 3. Classification of Nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Common Nouns -- 2.1. Dynamic nouns -- 2.2. Non-dynamic nouns -- 2.2.1. Count nouns -- 2.2.2. Collective nouns -- 2.2.3. Noncount nouns -- 2.3. Concrete vs. abstract nouns -- 2.4. Nouns with dual (dynamic/non-dynamic) class membership -- 3. Proper Nouns -- 3.1. Personal names -- 3.1.1. Islamic birth names (sūnan yankā) -- 3.1.2. Everyday names (sūnan rānā)

3.2. Personal names as common nouns -- 3.3. Hypocoristics -- 4. Titles -- 5. Geographical Names -- 5.1. Simple (non-derived) geographical names -- 5.2. Complex (derived) geographical names -- 5.3. Foreign geographical names -- 6. Temporal Names -- 7. Books, Newspapers -- Chapter 4. Simple Nouns and Adjectives: Gender and Number -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender -- 2.1. Geographical locations -- 2.2. O'clock hours, days of the week, and prayer-times -- 2.3. Months -- 2.4. Numerals -- 2.5. Time and place adverbs used as nouns -- 2.6. Feminine gender forms of nouns and/or adjectives.

2.6.1. Derivation with -niyā or -anyā suffix -- 2.6.2. Inflection with -ā suffix -- 3. Plurals of Nouns and Adjectives -- 3.1. Copying and reduplication -- 3.2. Class 1: -āCē)HLH -- 3.2.1. Subclass 1a: -āCfē)HLH -- 3.2.2. Subclass lb: -āyē)HLH -- 3.2.3. Subclass 1c: -āC3ē)HLH -- 3.3. Class 2:-(ā)Cfā)HLH -- 3.3.1. Subclass 2a: -āC3ā)HLH -- 3.3.2. Subclass 2b: -CfCfā)HLH -- 3.3.3. Subclass 2c: -āCfā)HLH -- 3.3.4. Subclass 2d: -ā)HLH -- 3.4. Class 3:-āCfū)HLH -- 3.4.1. Subclass 3a: -āC3ū)HLH -- 3.4.2. Subclass 3b: -āCfū)HLH -- 3.5. Class 4: -ōCfī)H -- 3.6. Class 5: -uCā)HL.

3.6.1. Subclass 5a: -unā)HL -- 3.6.2. Subclass 5b: -ukā)HL -- 3.6.3. Subclass 5c: -uwā)HL -- 3.6.4. Subclass 5d: -uCfā)HL -- 3.7. Class 6: -akī/-a(i)ku)LH -- 3.7.1. Subclass 6a: -CVC- ...-akï)HLHH -- 3.72. Subclass 6b: -CVC- ...-aCf ī)HLHH -- 3.8. Class 7: -annï)LH -- 3.8.1. Subclass 7a: -ēCfanī)HLHH -- 3.8.2. Subclass 7b: -ēC3aCfī)HLHH -- 3.9. Class 8:-ī)LH -- 3.10. Class 9: -ū)LH -- 3.11. Class 10:-ai)LH -- 3.11.1. Subclass 10a: CVCi-ā-CVCįai)LH -- 3.12. Class 11:-ā)H -- 3.13. Class 12: -āwā)LH/H (ethnonymic plurals) -- 3.14. Class 13: Fully-reduplicated plurals (singular noun x 2)

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