Editing Hausa language (section)

=== Northernmost dialects and loss of tonality ===
The western to eastern Hausa dialects of ''Kurhwayanci'', Dam''agaram'' and ''Adarawa'', represent the traditional northernmost limit of native Hausa communities.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Hausa dialects (part-two) |author1=Hausawa |date=January 7, 2021  |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=737048570267593&id=287529908552797|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Facebook |language=en }}</ref> These are spoken in the northernmost [[sahel]] and mid-[[Sahara]]n regions in west and central [[Niger]] in the [[Tillaberi]], [[Tahoua]], [[Dosso Region|Dosso]], [[Maradi Region|Maradi]], [[Agadez]] and [[Zinder]] regions.<ref name=":4" /> While mutually comprehensible with other dialects (especially ''Sakkwatanci'', and to a lesser extent ''Gaananci''), the northernmost dialects have slight grammatical and lexical differences owing to frequent contact with the [[Zarma people|Zarma]], [[Fula people|Fula]], and [[Tuareg people|Tuareg]] groups and cultural changes owing to the geographical differences between the grassland and desert zones. These dialects also have the quality of bordering on non-tonal [[pitch accent]] dialects.

This link between non-tonality and geographic location is not limited to Hausa alone, but is exhibited in other northern dialects of neighbouring languages; example includes differences within the [[Songhay language]] (between the non-tonal northernmost dialects of [[Koyra Chiini]] in [[Timbuktu]] and [[Koyraboro Senni]] in [[Gao]]; and the tonal southern [[Zarma language|Zarma]] dialect, spoken from western [[Niger]] to northern [[Ghana]]), and within the [[Soninke language]] (between the non-tonal northernmost dialects of [[Imraguen language|Imraguen]] and [[Nemadi]] spoken in east-central [[Mauritania]]; and the tonal southern dialects of [[Senegal]], [[Mali]] and the [[Sahel]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title='The improtance [sic] of Hausa language as a verbal communication to Hausa people' as the research topic |url=https://linguistmam.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-improtance-of-hausa-language-as.html |website= InfantLinguistmam's conner for Undergraduate Students  |date=13 April 2013 |access-date=2022-02-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref>