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Massive List of Hausa, English, and other language learning resources
Here's a massive list of Hausa, English, and other language resources compiled and updated over time. Most books listed here can be bought on Amazon.
Physical Dictionaries, References, Resources 📚
- Ƙamusun Hausa na Jami'ar Bayero © Cibiyar Nazarin Harsunan Nijeriya 2006 (PDFs)
- Ƙamusun Harshen Hausa na Ayyuba T. Abubakar © 2014
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar| on Google Books
An English-Hausa Dictionary (Yale Language Series) | on Google Books | archive.org scan
A Hausa-English Dictionary| Read some of Paul Newman's Hausa-English Dictionary here on Google Books.
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Hausa-English/English-Hausa Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) by Nicholas Awde on Google Books | archive.org scan "fav-mojaam"&sin=TXT&query= 
Mu Zanta Da Harshen Hausa / Let's Speak Hausa (Hausa and English Edition) Paperback – December 1, 2008
by I. Chekaraou
Kamus Na Turanci Da Hausa (English -Hausa Illustrated Dictionary) 
Kamus Na Turanci Da Hausa 1982 - 216 pp Reprint from 1965 English - Hausa dictionary Babban Ja-gora ga Turanci Neil Skinner
A bi-lingual Hausa-Italian dictionary [1] | Dizionario hausa. Hausa-italiano, italiano-hausa by Sergio Baldi. Publisher: Dizionari Bilingue (Oct. 2015)- Dictionary of the Hausa Language, Volume 1 By Charles Henry Robinson via Google Books
- Hausa Language Acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries
- http://languages.wisc.edu/languages/hausa
- kasahorow - http://www.kasahorow.org/
- Muslim Parent Asks for Islamic Books With Black People, Gets Answers! [2] [3]
- Hausa Linguists and Authors
- A Semantic Analysis of Lexical Devices in Abubakar Imam Magana Jari Ce by Abdulwahab Muhammad
- English_Dictionary_of_Islamic_Words__Expressions.pdf
Links
Images, hotuna, photos
- My Book of Hausa Words and Pictures (Hausa Edition) by a fascinating author, Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo
- https://www.shutterstock.com/search/Hausa
- site:commons.wikimedia.org Hausa
Videos
- The TermWeb Webinar / Tutorial: Getting value out of your Excel glossaries.
- DrKaty 4Japanese YouTube - Archive of neat Japanese lessons in English using livestream app Periscope.
- Khan Academy Grammar YouTube Playlist, Crash Course Linguistics
- TheFreeDictionary.com's YouTube Videos (idioms)
- Learn Hausa with Nadiya Garba
- Learn Elementary Hausa including Alphabets, greetings, and more... from LexTorah Language Series in Hausa
- Speaking Books Working in the Community
- Jamilo and Ameena Yusuf (sister's YouTube vlog from Kano)
- https://www.youtube.com/user/bablalanguages/videos?view=57&flow=grid
- Language Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeS2104tMrPdpts0UP_Om0SwvrjLDqVr via https://www.youtube.com/hausafilmstv
- Brian4English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql3hOOtKwjQ&list=UUCatmlI3kIEpzcgFjAkAiZQ
- BBC Talabijin https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCfFSW2fG_AxFtvGP2rWDtaNaPCW4Js3d
- Bino and Fino - A Hausa Cartoon For Children with English subtitles
- How to say in Spanish
- Can my URLs use non-English words? - SEO Snippets https://youtu.be/74FiBesPkI4 via @YouTube
- https://www.fluentu.com/blog/spanish/learn-spanish-on-youtube/
- Iran's HausaTV on YouTube
- Collins Dictionary's YouTube (pronunciation guide)
- Learn 8 hours Hausa (audio phrases) - without music //
- HausaTop Street Questions [4]
Audio / Phonetics
- http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/HAU/hau.html (http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/HAU/hau_record_details.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nqt7mmxyoM)
- http://hausadictionary.com/Category:Resources/Transparent_Language_Online
- http://hausaradio.net (24/7 Hausa audio of global news broadcasts)
- http://globalrecordings.net/en/language/1068 - Audio recordings available in (Kano) Hausa. These recordings are designed for evangelism and basic Bible teaching to bring the gospel message to people who are not literate or are from oral cultures, particularly unreached people groups.
- https://livingtongues.org/talking-dictionaries/ ( https://talkingdictionaries.app/hausa/overview ) similar to https://forvo.com/languages/ha/
Other
- https://translate.google.com/#en/ha/, https://translate.google.com/#/ha/en, Google translate alternative: https://translate.panlex.org/?langDe=hau-000&langAl=eng-000&txt=
- https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofhaus01robiuoft (https://books.google.com/books?id=OlUiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofhaus01robiuoft/dictionaryofhaus01robiuoft_djvu.txt
- http://www.quranflashbook.com/Noble%20Quran%20Hausa/files/search/bookText.xml (via this google search)
- https://archive.org/stream/TranslationOfTheMeaningsOfTheNobleQuranInTheHausapdf/TranslationOfTheMeaningsOfTheNobleQuranInTheHausa#page/n3/mode/2up
- http://blog.rowbory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Full-Dictionary.doc http://blog.rowbory.co.uk/?s=hausa http://blog.rowbory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/13-Hausa-Index.pdf
- A Hausa Phrase Book: With Medical and Scientific Vocabularies [5]
- https://archive.org/details/grammarofhausala00migeiala
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Hausa_language
- https://ha.wiktionary.org
- https://simple.wiktionary.org
- http://www.thesaurus.com, https://www.powerthesaurus.org/
- http://www.spanishdict.com/ [6]
- http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us
- http://www.merriam-webster.com/
- http://definr.com/
- https://www.wordsapi.com/ (HN)
- http://www.farlex.com/
- http://idiom.wiki/
- http://languagelearningbase.com | https://www.facebook.com/EnglishIF
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/sexwise/pdf/16233english.pdf | http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/sexwise/pdf/16233hausa.pdf
- Sayings, idioms from a book review http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8293173/ (archived here: http://hausadictionary.com/Category:Resources/Hausaland_Tales_from_the_Nigerian_Marketplace)
- http://www.bbc.com/hausa/topics/verticals
- https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/hausa.html (Audio)
- http://hausa.irib.ir/shirye-shirye/hannunka-mai-sanda
- http://nairaland.net/dictionaries/english-hausa-dictionary.php
- http://hausa.leadership.ng/node/4929
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Il-5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false (An 1876 Hausa dictionary)
- http://aflang.humnet.ucla.edu/Yobe/Dictionaries/BadeW_english_hausa_2009.pdf [7]
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/hausa/article/art20150421082226604 (Election terms) | http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/hausa/article/art20150723091856126 (Ocean names)
- http://kanoonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=2794.0 HELP ME TRANSLATE KanoOnline Forum Thread (Read over 130,000 times)
- https://karinmagana.wordpress.com/
- http://www.jamb.org.ng/unifiedtme3/Syllabuses/Hausa.pdf
- hausa site:journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/
- Verb conjugation with Verbix.com - http://wiki.verbix.com/Languages/Hausa - conjugate, conjugating verbs, verb conjugation
- Introductory Hausa By Charles H. Kraft, Marguerite G. Kraft 1973
- Appendix to the Dictionary of the Hausa Language (Pub. 1876): Hausa-English Part, with Additions of Hausa Literature
- http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/publications/abubakre/Affixation%20in%20Hausa%20and%20Eggon%20EDE.pdf
- Hausar Yau Da Kullum: Intermediate and Advanced Lessons in Hausa Language and Culture
- 2001 Tarbiyar Bahaushe and Hausa Fiction.pdf
- Hausa Language Study (NYSC)
- https://lafiyarmu.com/ (health)
- http://aboutworldlanguages.com/hausa
- This man has spent 35 years compiling entries for a 132,000-word online slang dictionary that you can search for free (https://greensdictofslang.com/)
- http://www.netlingo.com/top50/acronyms-for-parents.php, http://parentinfo.org/article/online-teen-speak-updated
- https://delicious.com/hausaonline/
- https://www.quicktopic.com/8/H/JxKHyg9ccPUVB
- http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED376716.pdf
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMWec3199fbf5fbfa6faef8d7c056fb9aa84c905aa0
- Littafin adduʼa PDF (Christian), The Book of Common Prayer: Addu’a ta Safiya <> Morning Prayer in Hausa (1908)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Hausa_lemmas
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's story translated to Hausa by @Mazhun Idris: Yadda Mutum Ya Fara Tafiya A Tsaye http://jalada.org/2016/03/22/yadda-mutum-ya-fara-tafiya-a-tsaye/ via @JaladaAfrica
- Karanta labarin “Safaya-Taya” na Edwige-Renée DRO wanda aka fassara zuwa harshen Hausa. http://wp.me/p4hSPK-SC via @JaladaAfrica
- hausa site:praxismagonline.com
- hausa site:twitter.com/LeadershipNGA (Sorted by date)
- Maryam Aliko Mohammed is a poet and fiction writer who is based in Kaduna, Nigeria...
- Body parts in Hausa proverbs _ Baldi _ Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures by Professor Sergio Baldi (author of a bi-lingual Hausa-Italian dictionary [8])
- Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu - [2012] Al-Hausawi, Al-Hindawi: Media Contraflow, Urban Communication and Translinguistic Onomatopoeia Among Hausa of Northern Nigeria. Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures (ALC), 46: 23-57. Department of African Languages and Culture, University of Warsaw, Poland. [9]
- Language Resource Center: Hausa Online Resources (2010): audio, video, text exercises, and student projects.
- The Nigerian Institute of Translators and Interpreters (NITI) is actually “an offshoot” of the Nigerian Association of Translators and Interpreters (NATI). [10]
- HAUSA TRANSLATOR AND THE EMERGING SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA: A WORD OF CAUTION By IBRAHIM GARBA SATATIMA Ph.D, Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics, BAYERO University, KANO dr._satatima_hausa_translator_and_the_emerging_security_challenges_in_nigeria.docx
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang Comes Online By Jonathon Green https://greensdictofslang.com (inspiring!)
- The internet and reference are made for each other.
- http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2015/01/merriam_webster_dictionary_what_should_an_online_dictionary_look_like.html?wpsrc=fol_tw
- http://maguzawa.dyndns.ws/frame.html, http://bargeryhausa.gotdns.com/frame.html [11] [12], On-line Bargery's web site, which contains: A Hausa-English Dictionary (39000 words) and English-Hausa Vocabulary (4600 words). See also bargery
- https://glosbe.com/en/ha https://glosbe.com/ha/en
- https://www.speaklanguages.com/ - doesn't have Hausa but a very nice language learning website with an average of a couple million visits according to SimilarWeb and verified by Google Analytics
- https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/reference/dictionaries-and-encyclopedias
- http://iqna.ir/ha
- Tech, Technology, Fasaha:
- http://regexr.com/3eoi8
- http://www.linguistik.de/en/links/suchen/?k1=subjheading&v1=&o2=AND&k2=all&v2=&o3=AND&k3=title&v3=&o4=AND&k4=classification&v4=&o5=AND&k5=langclassification&v5=hausa&o6=AND&k6=sourcetype&v6=&qm=a
- https://www.livelingua.com/project/peace-corps/Hausa/
- http://portal.nflc.umd.edu/lessons/language/hausa
- http://lingopolo.com/
- http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/page/imprint.php
- http://mylearningacademy.com/learner/FAQ.aspx / https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGNOMk6-J_A_KaImumB0miUQ7djolGGCXARImfgfsJI/edit
- https://pass.ng/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Hausa.pdf (syllabus)
- http://www.languagelinksdatabase.com/hausa/
- http://www.kas.de/nigeria/en/pages/10527/
- http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language_3_Africa.html#ENGTO-HAUSA
- https://unicodelookup.com/ | http://json2table.com/ | http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/find-and-replace-text/ | https://www.textconverter.io/replace-text/ | https://codebeautify.org/source-code-viewer | https://regexr.com/3geqs > https://regexr.com/5faqn (technical tools)
- Stemming Hausa Text- Language Resources and Evaluation via [16]
- http://bit.ly/BYUCorpus
- Regex Dictionary: https://visca.com/regexdict/
- http://atxwoman.com/moms-the-word/ - Great article about two [17][18] amazing women and their work for multiculturalism! Read more about MamaLingua at https://www.mama-lingua.com/blog
- https://www.hmongbaby.com/blogs/news/3-ways-to-make-flashcards-fun-and-effective
- http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?&req=hausa&phrase=1&view=simple&column=def&sort=year&sortmode=DESC
- https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/keydocuments/hausa/universaldeclara1.html (United Nations (UN/MDD) Parallel text content)
- https://wordsift.org/ [19]
- wals.info Google search
- Academic research, papers, articles
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/search/advanced?qs=hausa&origin=article&zone=qSearch&sortBy=date
- https://plu.mx/plum/a/?doi=10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.016&theme=plum-sciencedirect-theme&hideUsage=true
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329528171_Investigating_Global_Language_Networks_using_Google_Search_Queries
- https://www.academia.edu/1974186/Neural_Network_Based_Hausa_Language_Speech_Recognition [20] (page 38)
- The taxonomy of Nigerian varieties of spoken English
- Linguistic papers on Nigerian Languages - FAIS Oct 2016 4-Day Intl Conference
- site:aclweb.org/anthology "Hausa" (Academic Research/Papers/NLP)
- https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation
- Hausa special characters guide and shortcuts for ContentTranslation
- https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?language=Hausa&query=&sort=Most%20Read
- http://www.whatsincommons.info/icwsm/ http://www.whatsincommons.info/icwsm/imgdive/tool.html WikiImgDive: The live version of WikiImgDive is available here. You can fill in the query box with the exact name of the Wikipedia page (case sensitive) to search.
- StatCounter Market Share Nigeria
- Audio/work tools:
- MultiWiki: Interlingual Text Passage Alignment in Wikipedia [21]
- https://www.lionbridge.com/blog/retail/10-emerging-languages-of-global-consumers/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hausa-language
- World War II and the origins of Hausa newspapers: the early years of 'Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo' (EAP485)
- Parallel Brochures with highly technical terminology via msu.edu. [22]
- "Preparation and Publication of Electronic Dictionary and Text Search System of Hausa and Yoruba" http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/%7Ekmach/IRC/2013/Hausa_Yoruba/Hausa_Yoruba_dic.html … This system enables a full-text search of input materials and vocabularies of Hausa and Yoruba. [23] [24]
- http://irc2010-server.aa.tufs.ac.jp/FullTextSearch/_28.html (regex, co-occurrence, full text search)
- http://irc2010-server.aa.tufs.ac.jp/AjaxIME/AjaxIME_05.html
- The Hausa Language - A Descriptive Grammar by M. A. Smirnova
- https://www.africanstorybook.org/ (example: en, ha, ha2, gDrive folder)
- https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sabon_Harshe
- Learn_Hausa_Friendly_WhatsApp_Group
- Leadership Newspapers Nigeria (Digital newspapers/magazines): https://issuu.com/leadership.ng
- https://www.babansadik.com/
- https://carmenmccain.com/media/
- https://mekirki.wordpress.com @mekirki
- Hausa ebooks
- Essential 25000 English-Hausa Law Dictionary
- Jami’ar Bayero ta kammala fassarar wasu litattafan kimiyya da lissafi zuwa harshen hausa – Freedom Radio Nigeria
- final report OF UNESCO'S SUB-COMMITTEE ON HAUSA TRANSLATION OF THE ABRIDGED VERSION OF VOLUME VII OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF AFRICA. (African Union, AU)
- 89 results in UNESDOC for : Language : Hausa (High quality parallel text)
- Religious, Hadith - Sunan Abu Dawud in Hausa (Audio)
- Hausa infographics
- site:oup.com "Hausa" Google Search
- OED: https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/documentation/languages [25] (Hausa added Jul 30, 2020 [26])
- https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/601-rudolf-gaudio, White man speaking hausa (2017)
- Wikimedia Grants: Nigerian keyboard project
- People all over the world have yet to discover Wikipedia. We went to them to find out why. October 11, 2016 by Zack McCune. "Phone surveys were offered in multiple languages ... English, Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba for 2,500 participants in Nigeria"
- site:diff.wikimedia.org "hausa"
- 2/10 Americans are foreign-born/non-native English speakers - 2016 Census. [27]
- Koyon Turanci Facebook group with more than 31.2K members!
- College and Universities with Hausa programs or information
- Google Play Hausa Dictionary Apps
- Nigeria - United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Annual Reports
- https://www.rumbunilimi.com.ng/ Rumbun Ilimi YouTube channel via https://twitter.com/HausaTranslator/status/1313848242027851776
- Archive.org Hausa Search
- ngex Hausa search
- http://blogs.harvard.edu/aminugamawa/hausa/
- All pages with prefix "Hausa"
- A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist
- https://developers.google.com/s/results?q=hausa
- Hausa Grammar by Charles H. Robinson (SOAS)
- https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sabon_Harshe/%C6%98amus [28]
- https://www.bu.edu/200word/hausa/ (To help categorize terms)
- Text Normalization for Low-Resource Languages of Africa [29]
- Text normalization algorithm for facebook chats in hausa language [30][31]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate/!recent&action=proofread&language=ha
- The Nimdzi Language Technology Atlas is a free resource for the entire language industry and beyond
- The Nimdzi Language Technology Atlas highlights the extensive research Nimdzi uses to guide our clients through complex technology selection, deployment, and migration projects. Navigating 700+ language technology solutions can be daunting.
- Ebook-Kasa-Kayanki-Duniya-ta-siya-Online by Maryam bichi.pdf
- Nina Pawlak, a professor at the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw (@UniWarszawski).
- Low Tone Raising in Hausa: A Critical Assessment by Paul Newman and Philip J. Jaggar
- The Reality of Hausa "Low Tone Raising" A Response to Newman & Jaggar by Russell G Schuh
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