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What’s up with Hausa and Wolof?? | ||
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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6230 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 5 29 April 2013 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
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In my constant state of language wanderlust, I was researching African languages and came across Hausa (and
Wolof) . According to Wikipedia, Hausa is: second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 52 million people. Hausa is one of Africa's largest spoken languages after Arabic, French, English and Swahili. I found some radio links and listened to a bit of Hausa this morning: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/hausa/ China Radio International http://hausa.cri.cn/ Deutsche-Welle http://www2.dw-world.de/hausa/ VOA http://www.voanews.com/hausa/ It is truly a very melodic and beautiful sounding language. Here is a great collection of Hausa links: Africa - Hausa Has anyone studied this language? Is it truly the "Swahili of the African West" with widespread use as a West African lingua franca? Has anyone known any Hausa speakers in North America? If so where? I was also wondering about Wolof. Our local University offers a local conversational class on Wolof. It does not appear to be as widespread as Hausa but also seems to be widely understood in Senegal and the surrounding region. Any Wolof students/speakers out there?? Edited by liddytime on 29 April 2013 at 8:13pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6230 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 5 02 May 2013 at 3:26pm | IP Logged |
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When I was researching Hausa, I came across this site:
http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Majo rLanguages It is an amazing compilation of web resources on numerous African languages! This is another great African language site: http://www.nalrc.indiana.edu/ No Hausa or Wolof students out there yet, eh?! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4601 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 02 May 2013 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
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Maybe zip a message to Moses McCormic or Tim Doner... I think the both of them know a thing or two about both
Wolof and Hausa 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4737 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 02 May 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
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I looked into Wolof a bit earlier, unfortunately I didn't save any links. It seemed like
a very interesting language, however! As with many African languages, there are far more resources available in French. Perhaps between your various romance languages you could understand enough to make use of these resources. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 5 of 5 02 May 2013 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
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I want to learn Hausa.
I didn't went to far with it, but I think the gramma is fascinating. you conjugate pronouns instead of verbs. and there is the grafiend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE3COPJNCOY 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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