Associations to the word «Haussa»

Dictionary definition

HAUSSA, noun. A member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria.
HAUSSA, noun. The chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language.

Wise words

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