Dictionary of the Hausa language

Book Name-"Dictionary of the Hausa language"

Author Name- Charles Henry Robinson D.D.


File Type-PDF

Pages-452

PDF Quality-Best

PDF Size-26.1mb

Book Type-English

Publication date-1913-14

 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

TTAUSA is probably the most widely spoken language 1 in the continent of Africa. Throughout Northern Nigeria it is the language of the greater part of the inhabitants and outside this wide aren it forms a sort of lingua franca throughout a large part of Africa north of the equator. The traveller who knows the Hausa language can walk from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Seasure of finding in almost every market place which he may pass en route some with whom he can converse. The fact that within recent years that part of Nigeria in which most of the Hausa people live has become an English Protectorate should serve to increase the interest of English students in this language.
Before referring to the methods adopted in the production of this dictionary it will be well to state under what auspices the work has been carried out and to what extent it is based upon the labours of other students of the language.
The task of compiling this dictionary was accomplished under the auspices and direction of the Hausa Association. On the death at Lokoja, on June 26, 1891, of the Rev. John Alfred Robinson, M.A. (a brother of the author), who had attempted to start Christian missionary work amongst the Hausas, a committee was formed in London to perpetuate his memory and to carry on his work " by providing for a thoroughly scientific study of the Hausa language." The committee of the Association contained representative names,


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