Language quiz

Can you identify the language in this recorded snippet?

Here are a few clues: this language is spoken mainly on one continent by about 40 million people. It is generally written with the Latin alphabet these days, but used to written with the Arabic alphabet. The recording comes from the BBC World Service.

September 2nd, 2006 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (4)

vectorSeptember 2nd, 2006 at 3:45 pm

hausa?

SimonSeptember 2nd, 2006 at 5:03 pm

Yes, it is Hausa. Was that a lucky guess, or do you speak it?

vectorSeptember 2nd, 2006 at 5:04 pm

don’t speak it unfortunately. just remember hearing something about it on the radio a while back.

TJSeptember 2nd, 2006 at 5:51 pm

aaaaaa ………. ^_^
ok …. I think it’s Hausa :)