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Taaken Sàmàarii: a Drum Language of Hausa Youth

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natural language processing
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DAVEdgTho
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Cam
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Introduction This collaboration began when Ames and Gregersen met in Zaria, the capital of one of the old Hausa kingdoms in northern Nigeria. Gregersen, an anthropological linguist, was collecting material for a grammar of Hausa language, and Ames was making an anthropological study of the status and role of professional musicians.

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Hausa

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