Countries
Nigeria
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Don Allah
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
haoussa
  
kurde
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Kurds
  
Origin
14
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Hausa and Kurdish Speaking population
Hausa and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hausa and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Hausa and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Hausa and Kurdish on Hausa vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hausa and Kurdish Language Codes
Hausa and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hausa and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.