haussa

English Thesaurus

1. the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	west chadic,
definition	:	a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member (noun.communication)

2. a member of a Negroid people living chiefly in northern Nigeria (noun.person)

hypernym	:	nigerian,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of Nigeria (noun.person)