Dictionary of the Hausa Language
Material type: TextPublication details: USA Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition 2010 Description: 475pages. Dimensions : 5.51 x 1.25 x 8.5 inchesISBN: 978-1108016728; 1108016723Subject(s): Hausa LanguageItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Faculty of Arts | PL8233 .D58 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0162331 |
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PL8014 .N54 2013 A handbook for Nigerian creative writers / | PL8231 .N49 2022 A history of the Hausa language : | PL8231 .S78 2015 Studies in Hausa: Language and Linguistics | PL8233 .D58 2010 Dictionary of the Hausa Language | PL8822 .A34 2022 Ìmọ̀ Èdè, Àṣà, àti Lítíréṣọ̀ Yorùbá : fún. Ilé-ẹ̀kọ̀ sẹ́kọ́ńdìrì àgbà (new edition) / | PL8822 .A34 2022 Ìmọ̀ Èdè, Àṣà, àti Lítíréṣọ̀ Yorùbá : fún. Ilé-ẹ̀kọ̀ sẹ́kọ́ńdìrì àgbà (new edition) / | PL8822 .A34 2022 Ìmọ̀ Èdè, Àṣà, àti Lítíréṣọ̀ Yorùbá : fún. Ilé-ẹ̀kọ̀ sẹ́kọ́ńdìrì àgbà (new edition) / |
Hausa is an African language originating in Niger and northern Nigeria and spoken widely in West and Central Africa as a lingua franca. Charles Henry Robinson (1861–1925) was the first student of the short-lived Hausa Association, formed in 1891 to promote the study of the Hausa Language and people. The Association sponsored Robinson to stay in northern Nigeria from 1894 to 1895 to gain more experience in the language. On his return Robinson published an anthology of Hausa texts in 1896 and a Hausa grammar in 1897 as well as this two-volume dictionary in 1899. His efforts contributed greatly to Western knowledge of the language despite criticisms of his relatively short experience of Hausa-speaking communities. Volume 1 is a Hausa–English dictionary. The version reissued here is the 1925 fourth edition, for which the Hausa–English dictionary was re-written and expanded.
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