₦airaland Forum

Hausa are apart of who we are. There are more groups that were not named that helped to create us. Many words that are not in the creole was hidden. The gullah/Geechee had to also communicate with slavers. They hid a number of African word in names. Some people of the past were named after the days of the weeks, others named various tribal words that were not birth names. Soon those words became lost when people moved out across America and assimilated into the larger African American community. My family moved to new jersey and were treated differently by even the larger African American groups. Ecentually they assimilated to fit in and alot was lost.They took more common names.

Here are some Hausa words used as names amongst the Gullah of the past. (M)=male (f)= female.

A'damu (m)=adam, A'lanke (m)=a board used by leather workers, A'lura (f)=needle, 'Bano (m)= an eel, 'Banke (m)= to collide with and knock over, 'bari (m)= to leave off, it's also efik and susu with different meanings, 'beke (f), fa'lasa(f), 'kunci (f)= side of face, cheek.


These and many others were used as personal names and not in speech. There are a lot more. From lots of tribes not mentioned in this thread.

Fulaman198:
I'm not too sure if Hausa is a part of it, Fulfulde definitely is as it's a far different language from Hausa.