Haussa or Houssa, a subject people of Central Soudan, whose language has become the common speech of some 15 millions of people between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Guinea. The language is allied to the Hamitic tongues, and is written in modified Arabic characters.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hauser, Kaspar * Haussman, George Eugène