Hausa

Phrases

1) Hello

How are you doing?

Barka Ina Gajiya (ENAY guh Gee ah)

2) What is your name?

 
Yaya sunan ka?  

3) Thank you

You are Welcome

Na gode Barka Da zuwa

4) Please

Excuse me

Don Allah Gafara

5) Goodbye

 
Sai anjima  

"Colorful Facts"

Hausa are a black people of west Aftica. The approximately 7 million Hausa make up an important cultural and political group in northern Nigeria and southern Niger. Most of them are Muslims. The Songhai Empire controlled the Hausa states throughout much of the 1500's. Timbuktu, a famous city of this empire, was a great center of trade. It became a center of scholarship for the world in history, law, and the Islamic religion.

Location: Spoken mostly in northern Nigeria and southern Niger.

Capital: Abuja, (Lagos, the largest city.) of Nigeria.

Population: Esitmated 2006 - Niger: 12,525,094; Nigeria: 131,859,731

Foods: yams, corn, rice, beans, and plantains (like a banana), and the roots of the "cassava plan." The laws of Islam forbid the eating of pork and the drinking of alcoholic beverages.

(Primary Source) World Book Encylopedia, 2006.