Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
France
  
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Nigeria
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
sannu
  
Thank You
Merci
  
gode ku
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
yaya dai
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
mai kyau dare
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
barka da yamma
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
barka da rana
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
mai kyau safe
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Don Allah
  
Sorry
désolé
  
yi hakuri
  
Bye
au revoir
  
sai anjima
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ina son ku
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
gafara dai
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Gaananci
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Kurhwayanci
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Niger
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Daragaram
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Niger
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
50.00 million
  
28
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
35.00 million
  
27
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
français
  
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
French Name
français
  
haoussa
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Haussa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Chadic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Hausa
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ha
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
hau
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
hau
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
hau
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
haus1257
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
19-HAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional