Capitalization in Haoussa

Hello,

Does someone know if there are special rules for this language.
I m surprised to always see Capital on each word as in english.
ex: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cec7447d-a39c-41c5-ba74-5d7057e5c731/recordings

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There probably are special rules, but I don’t see them particularly well documented out on the web. Looking at some Hausa language literature, much of it is written in ALL CAPS which doesn’t really help. The ones I found that do distinguish upper and lower case seem to capitalize the first word of the title and any proper names – for example, https://hausadictionary.com/ : Ƙamusun Hausa da Turanci

Note also that in your example there are many English and French titles, and those should follow the respective styles of those languages of course.

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Indeed was referring only to Haussa tracks in this examples.

Based on your feedback I should go with the standard rule for Transliteration? (Otherwise, then only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized.)

And English/French guidelines for other titles of course

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