Conversation between two young Hausa men. Session organised in the author's house on Ahmadu Bello University Campus. Topic : personal biography & anecdotes
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Zaria Hausa.
Chadic language. 50 million speakers in several countries, mainly Nigeria and Niger. Local variety represented in the recording : Zaria Hausa. Characterized by absence of morphological gender outside the pronominal system.
Dialogue between 2 friends born and brought-up in Palladan, Zaria, Kaduna State (Nigeria)
Recording session done by the author in his office in Ahmadu Bello University.
1st language : Hausa 2nd language : English learnt at school
1st language. Local variety: Zaria ; characterized by absence of gender opposition outside the pronominal system
2nd language; learnt at school
25 year old student ; born and living in Pallada, Zaria
1st language : Zaar Regional language : Hausa Education & working language : English
Zaar : mother tongue
Regional language. Chadic language
Education language (secondary school).
Language assistant and contact person in the village. Son to the village head.
1st language. Not used in the session.
Fluent. Communication language with English-speaking collaborators.
Near-fluent. Communication language with villagers.
Basic. For basic communication with older speakers of Zaar.
Collector and annotator with the help of M.S. Davan, language assistant.
Monolingual
1st language. Local variety: Zaria ; characterized by absence of gender opposition outside the pronominal system
2nd language ; learnt in school
25 year old student ; born and living in Palladan, Zaria
Sound-aligned broad phonetic transcription, free translation, and morpho-syntactic labelling in Elan format, using Leipzig glossing rules.