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Here the world's foremost expert on Hausa linguistics sketches how the sound system and grammar developed over time. Of equal interest are properties shared with other languages of the Chadic group vs. features--particularly the verbal system--that hardly resemble other Chadic languages at all. In just over 200 pages, Newman covers all the basics and offers reasons for accepting some popular accounts while rejecting others. he also doesn't hesitate, where little historical information is availab...