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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Nigeria

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Gambia, Nigeria

1.4 Second Language

Nigeria

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
  • There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

44
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

32
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

sannu

3.2 Thank You

gode ku

3.3 How Are You?

yaya dai

3.4 Good Night

mai kyau dare

3.5 Good Evening

barka da yamma

3.6 Good Afternoon

barka da rana

3.7 Good Morning

mai kyau safe

3.8 Please

Don Allah

3.9 Sorry

yi hakuri

3.10 Bye

sai anjima

3.11 I Love You

Ina son ku

3.12 Excuse Me

gafara dai

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Gaananci

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Ghana

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Kurhwayanci

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Niger

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Daragaram

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Niger

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

50.00 million
Rank: 28 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.52 %
Rank: 28 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

35.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa

5.3.4 French Name

haoussa

5.3.5 German Name

Haussa-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Hausa–Fulani people

6 History

6.1 Origin

14

6.2 Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Chadic

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Hausa

6.3.3 Language Position

34
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ha

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

hau

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

hau

7.3 ISO 639 3

hau

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

haus1257

7.6 Linguasphere

19-HAA-b

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Hausa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hausa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hausa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hausa. Hausa phonology gives Hausa vowels and Hausa consonants. There are 12 vowels and 32 consonants in Hausa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hausa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hausa language is given in detail in this section.

All Hausa countries

Want to explore all Hausa countries? About Hausa language serves you with all Hausa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hausa as official language are called as Hausa countries.

  • Countries that use Hausa as their National Language are: Gambia, Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Hausa as second language are: Nigeria.

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Learn Hausa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hausa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hausa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hausa language.Learn Hausa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: sannu
  • Thank you: gode ku
  • Good Morning: mai kyau safe
  • Good Evening: barka da yamma
  • Good Afternoon: barka da rana

All Hausa Language Codes

Get to know all Hausa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hausa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.