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About Hausa Language



Countries
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Countries
Nigeria 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Gambia, Nigeria 0

Second Language
Nigeria 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

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.
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Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets
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Alphabets in
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Alphabets
44 24

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
32 22

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
sannu 0

Thank You
gode ku 0

How Are You?
yaya dai 0

Good Night
mai kyau dare 0

Good Evening
barka da yamma 0

Good Afternoon
barka da rana 0

Good Morning
mai kyau safe 0

Please
Don Allah 0

Sorry
yi hakuri 0

Bye
sai anjima 0

I Love You
Ina son ku 0

Excuse Me
gafara dai 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Gaananci 0

Where They Speak
Ghana 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci 0

Where They Speak
Niger 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Daragaram 0

Where They Speak
Niger 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
50.00 million 28

Speaking Population
0.52 % 28

Native Speakers
35.00 million 27

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million 18

Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa) 0

Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa 0

French Name
haoussa 0

German Name
Haussa-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people 0

History
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Origin
14 0

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family 0

Subgroup
Chadic 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Hausa 0

Language Position
34 27

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
ha 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
hau 0

ISO 639 2/B
hau 0

ISO 639 3
hau 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
haus1257 0

Linguasphere
19-HAA-b 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional 0

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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.

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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.

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