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Hausa

الهوسا

West Africa's great language; tongue of Islamic markets and broadcasting in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana, long written in Ajami.

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Overview

The great language of West Africa; the language of markets and Islamic broadcasts in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana, written in Arabic script. 1

People and things also explored

Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Indonesian· Kurdish· Malay· Pashto

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islam.museum contributors. “Hausa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/hausa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

Amharic

Ethiopia's official language; Abyssinian Muslims wrote in Arabic and Amharic, in one of Islam's earliest communities.