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Despite the revitalizations and sensitization of Islam by the 18th century jihadist and clerics, there still existed, in the present 21st century, some Hausa communities, known as "Maguzawa" who practice Pharaonic religion. This research revealed out the possible effects of Islamic revitalization and sensitization on social life and language of "Maguzawa" society in Malumfashi area of Katsina State- Northern Nigeria. It gave out explanations with example (in tabula form) on the linguistics areas affected by Islamic sensitization in "Maguzawa" society in Malumfashi area. Among them are, disappearance of some vocabularies relating to "Maguzanci" religion, changing the names of venues for "Maguzanci" practices, changing the style for naming proper nouns in "Maguzawa" society, discarding animistic praise epithets done to appease the demons and spirits being worshipped, disappearance of "Maguzanci" traditional covert norm utterances, discarding away of abusive "maguzanci" utterances, changing the style of swearing norms, disappearance of words relating to "Maguzawa" social ceremonies and finally, endangering of the entire "Maguzawa-Hausa" Dialect .
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