1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
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1.8 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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
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Kalanga and Nambya Language
1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
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2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
mai kyau dare
Urare zvakanaka
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Niger
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
50.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
35.00 million8.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
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5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Schona-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
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6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology