K. Three from the widely-spread nations of the interior-the Fulah, the haussa, and the Bornu.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Some other African languages, too, such as the haussa and Galla, have been classed as Semitic; and the language of Egypt, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the Coptic, which ceased to be spoken after the seventeenth century, has equally been referred to this class.
"Lectures on The Science of Language"
Max Müller