ABSTRACT
of lecture notes by the leading Hausaist of his time. A translation of Klingenheben’s Law with commentary is provided in Newman (2004). Abraham (1962) and Bargery (1934) are outstanding comprehensive Hausa-English dictionaries. The English-Hausa dictionary of R.M. Newman (1990) contains a wealth of illustrative examples, all accurately marked for tone and vowel length. A Hausa-English counterpart to this dictionary is now available (Newman 2007). A convenient pocket dictionary is Awde (1996). For a fully comprehensive bibliography of works on Chadic and Hausa up to the time of its publication, see Newman (1996).
