How To Use “The Universal Hausa Hooked-Letters”
Department of Languages and Cultures Federal University Gusau, Zamfara Nigeria Email: abuubaidasani5@gmail.com or abu-ubaidallah@fugusau.edu.ng WhatsApp: +2348133529736
Background
In this write-up, you should be learning how to use the Universal Hausa Hooked-Letters as the best solution to the hooked-letter issues. Hausa language orthography has some unique letters
notably "The Hausa Language Hooked-Letters." The capital
hooked-letters are "Ƙ", "Ɗ", and "Ɓ" while the
small ones are "ƙ", ’ɗ", and "ɓ". For the fact that
English keyboards do not provide for such hooked-letters, there comes the need
to improvise. There have been efforts, consequently, to come up with
alternative ways. Some of the efforts are successful.
The most popular options are Rabi'at in which the fonts
are installed in a system as "fonts style." If Rabi'at fonts are
installed and selected as font style, automatically:
i. "X" is "Ɗ"
ii. "Q" is "Ƙ"
iii. "V" is "Ɓ"
(The same with lower case).
For Abdalla:
i. "SHIFT + {" is "Ƙ"
ii. "SHIFT + }" is "ƙ"
iii. "SHIFT + [" is "Ɗ"
iv. "SHIFT + ]" is "ɗ"
v. "SHIFT + |" is "Ɓ"
vi. "SHIFT + ~" is "ɓ"
Shortcomings
i. The letters are only recognized if a system has the
fonts installed.
ii. A typist must be switching from one fonts style to
another if the text involves Hausa, English and special characters.
The Development
It is fortunate enough that the latest development
provided by Microsoft has come with the best solution to the problem. It
has introduced such characters which are names, locally however,
"Universal Hausa-Hooked Letters." To use the new development, follow
the procedures below:
i. Go to "Control Panel"
ii. Open "Language Region" (Use the search function to locate it as indicated in the photo below)
iii. Locate a list of languages
iv. From the list of languages, select "Hausa
(Latin-Nigeria)
NOTE: Hausa available there include "Hausa
"Latin-Nigeria", "Hausa (Latin-Niger)", and "Hausa
(Latin-Ghana)"
v. Save it.
DONE!
Using The Universal Hausa-Hooked Letters
i. When you open any Microsoft file, locate
"ENG" from your "taskbar" (either at the top, bottom or
side, depending on where you set the taskbar).
ii. Click on the "ENG" and you will find this:
HAU Hausa (Latin)
Hausa Keyboard
iii. Click on it
iv. The initial "ENG" will now turn to
"HAU"
You are good to go!
In the file, type hooked-letters using:
i. ALT GR + K as "Ƙ"
ii. ALT GR + X as "Ɗ"
iii. ALT GR + V as "Ɓ"
The same with the lower case:
i. alt gr + k as "ƙ"
ii. alt gr + x as "ɗ"
iii. alt gr + v as "ɓ"
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