Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Nigeria
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
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Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
sannu
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
gode ku
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
yaya dai
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
mai kyau dare
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
barka da yamma
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
barka da rana
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
mai kyau safe
  
Please
Please
  
Don Allah
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
yi hakuri
  
Bye
Bye
  
sai anjima
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Ina son ku
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
gafara dai
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Gaananci
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Kurhwayanci
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Daragaram
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
50.00 million
  
28
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
35.00 million
  
27
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
English
  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
French Name
anglais
  
haoussa
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Haussa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Chadic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Hausa
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
ha
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
hau
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
hau
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
hau
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
haus1257
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
19-HAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional