They speak the Hausa language, a member of the Chadic language group, itself a sub-group of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference

Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference

For example, Chadic languages are spoken in Niger republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [naijablog] Reference

Magana, Ron-Kulere meeting placeand one of the editors of Chadic Newsletter.    From Wordnik.com.  [naijablog] Reference

For example, my mitochondrial DNA test had a 100% genetic match to three neighboring Chadic-speaking tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booker Rising] Reference

You see, as noted above, these three language families are also quite closely related to Chadic (spoken mainly in Nigeria and Chad) and Cushitic (spoken around the Horn of Africa) - which means that 4 out of 5 branches of this family are native to Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference

Chadic languages are distantly related to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [naijablog] Reference

Chadic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized] Reference

Within the macro-families, there are subgroups, e.g. Atlantic, Benue-Congo, Chadic, Mande, andSaharan.    From Wordnik.com.  [naijablog] Reference