Countries
Nigeria
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Don Allah
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
haoussa
  
népalais
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
14
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Hausa and Nepali Speaking population
Hausa and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hausa and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Hausa and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hausa language is 0.52 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Hausa vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hausa and Nepali Language Codes
Hausa and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hausa and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.