30581 Hausa Sign Language "There are no accurate statistics on the number of deaf people in Nigeria in general or Kano State in particular. Estimates of the number of deaf people in Nigeria vary greatly between 70,000 (Mba 1987:242), and one and five million respectively... All members of the deaf community [in Kano State] share a common language, Hausa Sign Language. They may be native signers or may have acquired sign language later in life, for example because of becoming deaf postlingually." Maganar Hannu (Language of the Hands): A Descriptive Analysis of Hausa Sign Language On