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#there's a lot of theories about how exactly afroasiatic speakers spread & there isn't a consistent cultural/migration pattern
leroibobo
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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
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