The Hausa are a large ethnic group of the West African Sahel, concentrated in northern Nigeria and southern Niger, historically organized into walled city-states (the Hausa Kingdoms) later incorporated into the nineteenth-century Sokoto Caliphate. Hausa society is predominantly Muslim and built around a hierarchical emirate system that persists as a subnational traditional authority in Nigeria today. The Hausa language functions as a major regional lingua franca across the Sahel, spoken as a second language by tens of millions beyond the ethnic Hausa population itself.
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own account Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountWest Africa and the Sahel (northern Nigeria and southern Niger) 1 Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own account Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountHistorically agrarian and strongly commercial, with Hausa traders operating long-distance trans-Saharan and West African trade networks for centuries. 1 Disputed
Population Estimateestimated 40 to 80 million 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountThe Hausa are frequently cited as one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, but totals differ enormously by source depending on whether closely related Hausa-speaking and culturally assimilated populations are counted together. Population Band (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Group Type
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Hausa emirates are traditionally governed by hereditary emirs and a hierarchy of subordinate chiefs, the Hausa-Fulani emirate system, a traditional authority that persists in Nigeria today.
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Source Countries and Their Cultures (Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Gale): Hausa - Kinship
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Source Wikipedia: HausaLead sentence 2tier 3Quote, Lead sentence 2
They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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The Hausa people are an ethnic group native to West Africa. They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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The Hausa people are an ethnic group native to West Africa. They speak the Hausa language, which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family.
Countries and Their Cultures (Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Gale): Hausa - Kinship
Countries and Their Cultures (Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Gale)In Rule Category: Bilateral Descent, Kin Groups and DescentQuote, In Rule Category: Bilateral Descent, Kin Groups and Descent
Although the domestic group is based on agnatic ties, and even as Hausa society is patriarchal, descent is basically bilateral; only the political aristocracy and urban intelligentsia observe strict patrilineality, everyone else practicing bilaterality.
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