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Hausa

الهوسا

West Africa's great language; tongue of Islamic markets and broadcasting in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana, long written in Ajami.

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The great language of West Africa; the language of markets and Islamic broadcasts in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana, written in Arabic script. 1

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God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Indonesian· Kurdish· Malay

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islam.museum contributors. “Hausa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/hausa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.