The provenance of Arabic loan-words in Hausa : a phonological and semantic study

This thesis consists of an Introduction, three Chapters, and an Appendix. The corpus was obtained from the published dictionaries of Hausa together with additional material I gathered during a research visit to Northern Nigeria. A thorough examination of Hausa dictionaries yielded a large number of...

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Main Author: El-Shazly, Mohamed Helal Ahmed Sheref
Published: SOAS, University of London 1987
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758658