Word: hausa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth and fingernails for the observance." LoBagola's people speak "a dialect of Arabic, mixed a great deal with Hausa, Yoruba, and Benga vernacu-lars." They wear no clothes. Most of them have never seen a white...