#'dunya' for 'world' for example). most hausa are muslim so itd make sense if they took some arabic words

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some of the architecture of zinder, niger. zinder rose from a small hausa village into an important center of trans-saharan trade during the 18th century, culmunating in it becoming the capital of the sultanate of damagaram in 1736.

#niger #hausa #architecture #my posts #in case you didn't know: hausa is a part of the afroasiatic language family (same family semitic langs are in) #there's a lot of theories about how exactly afroasiatic speakers spread & there isn't a consistent cultural/migration pattern #like w/ indo-euro languages #but hasua is probably to arabic/hebrew/syriac what english is to bengali or assamese (except even less similar) #i can pick out some hausa words myself ('sama' is 'heaven') but tbh im not sure how many are loadwords from arabic (since they use #'dunya' for 'world' for example). most hausa are muslim so itd make sense if they took some arabic words