The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar

by Paul Newman

This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. Hausa is spoken by some 35 million people as a first language and approximately 15 million more as a second language. Paul Newman, a world authority on the Hausa language, draws on two centuries of Hausa linguistic scholarship to provide the most authoritative and detailed grammar of the language ever written.

Unlike other grammars, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300081898
• ISBN13: 9780300081893
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"