All Rights Reserved. Do not quote without author's permission. A colon after vowels will indicate length. The grave and circumflex accents indicate tones. Hausa is moderately inflectional, with a fair degree of allomorphic complexity.
Morphology involves suffixes, vowel and consonant alternations, and tonal variation.
There is nominal and verbal agreement for gender and number. Hausa is predominantly head-marking. There are two numbers, singular and plural, and they are manifested, like gender, through indexing and agreement. There is no morphological expression of case except in the personal pronouns. Major grammatical relations are identified by the SVO word order, supported by subject indexing.